Opinion
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...
The mayor and the movement: Can Hill-Lewis remake the DA?
As the DA commences its elective federal congress, the party stands at a precipice that feels strangely familiar: poised for growth yet seemingly unable...
Streaming platforms keep broadcasting regulators on their toes
Globally there are growing shifts and blurred lines that are developing between audio-visual streaming services and the concept of traditional television broadcasting.
These developments have...
Think of Others: Empathy is the medicine South Africa needs
A poignant poem written in an ordinary language such that ordinary mortals like me who do not master the queen’s language all that well...
