Opinion

Navigating geopolitical uncertainty with discipline and perspective

The recent escalation of conflict involving Iran has added a new layer of complexity to the global investment landscape. Periods such as this naturally...

Here’s how to make drug addiction a health issue, not a...

It’s still early when Bridget Munnik walks to work, and the streets of Westbury in Johannesburg are eerily quiet. "If it's daylight, then it's their...

Jewish Board of Deputies writes to Ramaphosa over Iranian embassy’s rat...

Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa Request for intervention with antisemitic post by Iranian embassy The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) draws your attention to a...

Does municipal governance inspire voter participation?

In the gritty reality of South African life: local government is not some distant abstraction. It is the water tap that runs dry, the...

Charmza

History was written at the Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra Marathon in Cape Town yesterday as the unstoppable Gerda Steyn claimed a record-breaking seventh consecutive...

Moegoe

Self-proclaimed “Super fan” Mama Joy Chauke stooped to an entitled low on social media, demanding that government fly her to the US at taxpayer’s...

Door-to-door campaigning in a changing SA: Is this electoral strategy still...

In the early decades of South Africa’s democracy, few campaign strategies proved as potent as door-to-door mobilisation. Championed during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki,...

US ambassador’s critique of BEE undermines SA’s sovereignty

On Wednesday, April 8, a diplomatic event where President Cyril Ramaphosa received Letters of Credence from newly designated heads of mission should have been...

Nations rise and fall on citizens’ character

From the service-delivery and civil protests that periodically shake South Africa’s municipalities to Botswana’s ongoing debates about public accountability and governance standards to Zimbabwe’s...

This war has been a strategic defeat for the US and...

Let me be very clear. This two-week ceasefire is not the end of this war. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...