Opinion

When a city’s own employees believe the only way to be heard is to risk national embarrassment, it signals a profound breakdown in trust

Pupils and students are not the problem, but rather the lack of teacher engagement and poor management of instructional time are key issues, writes Jansen

A neoliberal agenda will not deliver a true entrepreneurial state, says Lehohla

We are at absolute rock bottom in terms of the fight against crime. To turn this around, we are going to have to bring some big walls crashing down, writes Justice Malala

The sparring between Pretoria and Washington should not detract from the significance of the G20 being held on African soil for the first time since its inception.

Trump is taking up too much of our time and emotions. I’m not sure there’s a country under the sun that he loathes more — and he’s summoned all the powers at his disposal to throw dirt at us, writes Barney Mthombothi

Unannounced plane-load of Palestinians from Gaza and Trump’s claim of ‘white genocide’ are not random events, but part of a sustained campaign to discredit SA, writes Kay Sexwale

It was meant to be a moment of atonement. But the desire to avoid cataclysmic court challenges has left the media with a watered-down deal — a compromise unlikely to save the sector, writes Makhudu Sefara

While the rest of the country is going purple in solidarity with the proposed nationwide shutdown over the scourge of gender-based violence and femicide, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula is making some people see red. Mbalula, who is no stranger to pu

Deputy communications & digital technologies minister  Mondli Gungubele is someone I have great respect for. One of my  indelible memories was of him  on the day SACP leader Chris Hani was killed.

Youth leaders transform protests into policy proposals

While we’ve been arguing about the merits of electronic cigarettes as ‘safer’ alternatives to tobacco and the fantastical need for a multitude of vape flavours, our children are getting addicted

While Dion George was not perfect, axing him at such an inconvenient time has repercussions

In response to Jonathan Jansen’s column on funerals in the Cape Flats, Heindrich Wyngaard argues for consideration of the socio-economic context that shapes them

The first adjustment to the official inflation target in 25 years is a boost for those of the view that the repo rate is effective at slowing inflation