Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor

Mike Siluma has been a journalist and columnist for more than two decades. His passion is to promote nation building among South Africans and to highlight issues affecting the African diaspora in SA, on the continent and elsewhere.

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
MIKE SILUMA | New mindset needed to end scourge of gender-based violence in SA

The failures of the police must be addressed to make the service more professional and responsive to the social environment officers work in, writes ...

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
MIKE SILUMA | National dialogue: watershed or waste of time?

Could the proposed national dialogue be a watershed moment that in 2025 changes the way we engage to seek solutions to our myriad problems, asks Mike ...

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
How Eskom stopped South Africa’s crippling load-shedding

While there's no definitive answer yet, Eskom seems to have found its way back to providing the country with reliable electricity

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
Tintswalo Waterberg ticks all the high-end safari boxes

An easy drive from Joburg, Tintswalo Waterberg hits all the targets in the high-end hospitality market, but it's the animals that will really charm ...

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
PODCAST | ‘It’s a coalition — the ANC knew it would go with the DA’

Prof Susan Booysen says the government of national unity (GNU) is a coalition with the DA but the ANC invited other parties to avoid "political ...

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
‘White racists need trauma healing’

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela believes white racists should be helped to heal so that they don’t wound others.

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
MIKE SILUMA | Don’t accept  UN half a loaf, Africa

The US says Africa can sit on the Security Council, but as second-class citizens. That’s not good enough, writes Mike Siluma.

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
Edward Kieswetter: Making Sars immune to future misgovernance

Edward Kieswetter speaks to Mike Siluma about why he returned to the tax agency in the wake of state capture, as well as the challenges associated ...

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
MIKE SILUMA | Self-appointed thought police a danger to free speech

The desire to silence views we do not like, not only about immigration but also about other issues, will be the death of us as an open democracy, ...

Mike Siluma Sunday Times deputy editor
‘I’m the Fikile Mbalula of the DA ... I run the party,’ says Helen Zille

DA federal chair Helen Zille tells  Mike Siluma the party will hold all cabinet ministers to account, including its own.