Editorial
Let’s step into the new year with optimism
We are at the tail end of the year 2024, an eventful 12 months that will go down in history,
especially politically, as a turning...
Crime statistics remain bleak, but what are we doing about it?
Police once again released the quarterly crime statistics this week, painting an almost despondent picture of a nation besieged no end by criminals who...
Always put SA first as maverick Trump returns
This might well turn out to be a comeback of biblical proportions — this return of the Orange Man, Donald Trump, to the seat...
Do us proud, Matric Class of 2024
We may well have been a tad slow to react to the starter gun, but as the trusty old saying goes, “it is better...
Will second coming of Mbeki save the ANC as it seeks...
Former president Thabo Mbeki for a long time has been operating in the quiet, mostly in the background, keeping a low political profile.
His demise...
Struggles of workers still the same as people’s
It was May Day, also known as Workers’ Day, on Wednesday yet many would be forgiven for their need to be reminded or even...
South Africa, a country at crossroads needs new leadership fit for...
The tenure of Jacob Zuma as president of South Africa and the ANC has exposed and laid bare the hidden dominant culture and values...
Our opposition parties must help build, not destroy
Our opposition parties must help build, not destroy
To be a political party in opposition benches should not mean to conspire against one’s country flag,...
The risk of a stolen election by the US and Israel...
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced he is worried that the US and Israel may seek a regime change in South Africa, especially since the country...
Your language is your African identity
Black people must love themselves, love their languages and know and honour their clan names, and not feel constrained or shy to proclaim them...
Register to vote and have a say in a better SA
Democracy, as imperfect as it is, requires the participation of citizens, and it is the participants who will make it come alive and close...
Payment of municipal bills can lead to better services
Selby Bokaba
In the early 1980s, then South African apartheid president PW Botha created what was known as “black local authorities” in the black townships....
PAC backing of MK an affront to Sobukwe
MdhlelaIt is difficult to understand fully, without second-guessing, where the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) is headed to, or whether it will ever,...
Rehabilitation sounds laudable, but at what cost?
This week, I was perusing TikTok when I came across a video of Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal’s Ebongweni Maximum Correctional Centre. The clip provided an insider’s...
Social media soccer experts are gossip mongers
The advent of social media and easy access to the internet has turned the world upside down.
Every Joe Soap and the fellow next door...
Matric: there is still hope for those who failed
Matome Chiloane
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the late Seaparankwe, said: “Do not judge me by my triumphs. Assess me according to the number of times I’ve...
Proliferation of political parties need not be scoffed at
Mosibudi Mangena
As we enter the 2024 year of national and provincial elections, there are some in our midst who have decried the mushrooming of...
Is Zondo’s office curtailing freedom of expression?
Since the dawn of democracy, efforts have been made to ensure that the courts are institutions in which law is applied without fear, favour...
Brics economic spin-offs and partnership possibilities
The 50th Brics summit held in Johannesburg late last year is regarded by most analysts as epochal in both geoeconomic and geopolitical terms. As...
SA takes Israel to the International Court of Justice for genocide
South Africa as a signatory to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (genocide convention) is duly permitted...
Goodbye to liberator with a camera
The angels must be stomping the ground with throaty joyfulness in a gig to welcome back the returning son of the soil – back...
Public broadcaster’s vision making headway, numbers show
Public broadcaster’s vision making headway, numbers show
Vuyo Mthembu
When the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) first over-the-top (OTT) streaming app, SABC+ was launched amid much...
Sobukwe’s lessons live on on his 99th birthday
Government and Justice
He was the lover of Africa, which was planted in the soul of his heart, and that in all things political and...
Springboks’ World Cup victory realised Stofile’s vision
In a compelling analysis of identity and nationhood in post-apartheid South Africa published shortly after the country’s hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup,...
SABC still the primary source of sport of national interest
The SABC’s content delivery obligations for nation-building and social cohesion can never be underestimated or ignored.
The total disregard of this important mandate by commercially-focused...
ANC, DA, EFF, PA elites playing fast and loose with municipal...
Every nation is run by a ruling class that is often divided into different political parties. But the ruling elite has many fraternal ties...
Let there be light on Phala Phala
Let there be light on Phala Phala
We are not cynics, and so we congratulate the police, and its investigative unit, for the arrest of...
State of emergency may be the answer
Government and Justice
What would a reasonable person think the country ought to do to curb the scourge of violence, the runaway crime statistics, given...
