Opinion

What the IEC should learn from the Constitutional Court ruling

The Constitutional Court’s decision to force the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to include the ANC’s 181 candidates on the ballot was more...

Oscar van Heerden | Israel’s ‘hasbara’ is failing globally

No amount of public diplomacy and/or spin doctoring is helping to stop the downward trajectory of Israel’s public relations and support. It is in...

Hunger in a country with enough food is a crisis of...

One in five households is uncertain where its next meal will come from, while almost three million children regularly go to bed hungry. One...

Charmza | Mbalula’s big ANC election win

Fikile Mbalula wept and nearly collapsed when the Constitutional Court ruled in the ANC’s favour, ordering the IEC to allow 181 of its candidates...

Moegoe | Carrim’s great escape fails

Once upon a time, in the land of the South, a commission named Madlanga called a man named Suliman Carrim to appear before it....

Finance minister, transform the commodity windfall into growth

The human cost of the Middle East crisis is devastating, particularly for those caught in the conflict, whose lives, families and livelihoods have been...

Randall Carolissen | Impact of Math Literacy on learners’ readiness...

This article considers the interdependence of literacy and numeracy foundations in the face of the propensity of and the ongoing debate about the adequacy...

Eugene Buthelezi | Petrol at R30: the tank is full, but...

South Africa has crossed a painful fuel-price threshold. Petrol 95 unleaded now costs R30.25 a litre inland and R29.38 at the coast, over R1...

Tshwarelo eseng Mogakane | 10 reasons Justice Mathopo is right to...

The social media outrage directed at Constitutional Court Justice Rammaka Mathopo for questioning the foundational legal instruments underpinning the Electoral Commission of South Africa's...

Maarten Van Doesburgh | South Africa’s economy is going backwards. What...

South Africa can ill afford another economic shock. Yet, as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana prepares to deliver his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement on October...