In recent times I have become concerned about this “protest nation”, as one book title calls us. We are habitual complainers.

There is an official document that comes from a powerful committee of the department of basic education containing a “proposal to implement automatic ...

I do think that schoolchildren should learn about life and that includes sex, but to introduce the subject of “touching oneself for pleasure” to ...

This is the sixth national democratic elections – we now can vote on track record and not only hype.

More than a century of racist indoctrination has created in the minds and hearts of ordinary South Africans something those in the social sciences ...

For seven years I had no choice but to work with the man who later became the secretary-general of the ANC, Ace Magashule.

SA does not have a strong system that holds salaried teachers accountable for their teaching commitments. What we do have is a union that protects ...

Poor black South Africans consistently vote for a party whose public image of corruption surely means that vital resources are diverted from the poor ...

How and why does a clumsy 19-year-old who rides her bike into a rugby post become an instant celebrity?

It is an injustice that so few of the former white schools of SA have black African teachers, and that criticism applies in equal measure to the ...