Opinion

Lotteries Commission is trying to sell you horse manure

COO Phillemon Letwaba has been unable to explain the numerous anomalies in the funding of Lesley Ramulifho’s projects

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Opinion | 23 October 2019

How inclusionary housing can make Cape Town a better place

A well-designed policy could change the face of the city

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Opinion | 15 October 2019

Minibus taxis: time to form cooperatives?

Cooperatives could unlock state subsidies for an industry which transports 16 million people a year

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Opinion | 11 October 2019

Attacks on foreign nationals may constitute terrorism

Let’s call them what they are so that we can start to heal

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Opinion | 13 September 2019

Incarcerated women tell NGO they are desperate for help

Conditions for women in prisons neglected during Women’s Month, says health and human rights organisation

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Opinion | 30 August 2019

King Zwelithini’s trust keeps people poor

Ingonyama Trust denies customary ownership rights to people living on its land

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Opinion | 29 August 2019

Women are being evicted from shelters onto the street

Victims of violence are rendered homeless or forced to return to abusive homes

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Opinion | 20 August 2019

No country for old spies

Take Jacob Zuma’s testimony for what it is – the rambling of a troubled mind

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Opinion | 17 July 2019

Farm workers, let down by politicians, face new threats to their security

Their situation can be improved but is there the political will?

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Opinion | 17 July 2019

Courts should not refuse bail to immigrants without good reason

Being foreign does not justify a refusal of bail

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Opinion | 26 June 2019

The right to die with dignity

We need to change our law

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Opinion | 19 June 2019

Victory for children’s rights in the Western Cape

Commissioner for Children to be appointed

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Opinion | 11 June 2019

How Wynberg court is evading public scrutiny

Magistrates are ignoring Constitutional Court judgment

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Opinion | 10 June 2019

Police are making arbitrary arrests at protests

Spurious charges are time-consuming and costly, and undermine the right to protest

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Opinion | 30 May 2019

One door of learning has opened, but the others are still firmly shut

Unless we fix the school system, the gains won by the #Feesmustfall campaign will mean very little

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Opinion | 21 May 2019