Opinion

Moegoe

Stuart Scharnick was arrested for intimidation this week after his confrontation with Sowetan journalist Herman Moloi at the Madlanga Commission. Scharnick was there supporting MP...

Charmza

State institutions have been weaponised for factional battles and bureaucratic score-settling. The withdrawal of fraud and corruption charges against Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo and six senior...

The cost of detaining undocumented migrants

In the wake of recent anti-immigrant protests in South Africa, law enforcement agencies have significantly increased immigration-related arrests. However, this raises an important question: apart...

When accountability has no number

“Who ya gonna call?” was an easy question in Ghostbusters. In the movie, if there was something strange in the neighbourhood, you knew exactly who...

Coalition governments are not a passing phase in South Africa

South Africa’s Constitution guarantees every citizen the right to free, fair and regular elections. It requires an electoral system that results, in general, in proportional...

Zelenskyy, Trump, EU must accept reality: It’s over for Ukraine

The end for Ukraine is nigh, no matter how many wildberries warehouses they target. Yet again, we hear lies from the Zelenskyy regime, that...

The alliance is unravelling, heralding a new era for politics

The SACP’s decision to contest the upcoming local government elections independently of the ANC is more than a political disagreement; it is a tectonic...

African clubs must stop selling themselves short

If the maxim everything is politics is true – like the air we breathe, the water we drink and the sky we see or...

Daniel Makokera | Africa’s industrialisation must cross borders

For decades, Africa has been talking about industrialisation. The conversation whose time has come is about building industrialisation at a continental scale. Across the continent,...

Pali Lehohla | The pulse of extension 8B: A narrative of...

The sun, a relentless entity over Orange Farm, is just beginning to cast its golden, dusty light when Extension 8B stirs. This is not...