Opinion

Noordhoek eco-estates protect the rich from the reality of Masiphumelele

Apartheid geography preserved behind a concern for the environment

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Opinion | 23 January 2017

De Lille’s promise to reverse apartheid design rings hollow

Government has failed to take opportunities to integrate Cape Town

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Opinion | 19 January 2017

National minimum wage: not enough protection for part-time workers

Some of the most vulnerable could be left in the cold

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Opinion | 13 January 2017

National minimum wage: the devil is in the detail

Aspects of the proposal may render a minimum wage ineffective

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Opinion | 14 December 2016

School funding: South Africa can learn from the world

Some countries have managed to improve outcomes for their most disadvantaged learners

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Opinion | 9 December 2016

Ekapa case shows South Africa’s stark inequalities

Mining companies and government move to end livelihoods of thousands of informal miners

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Opinion | 5 December 2016

Community care workers left to fend for themselves again

Workers excluded from proposed minimum wage

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Opinion | 2 December 2016

Hearings on Khoi San Bill held with no translation into Khoi and San languages

Portfolio committee hearings in Northern Cape off to shaky start

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Opinion | 1 December 2016

They evict us and then complain about the homeless

Affordable housing desperately needed

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Opinion | 30 November 2016

Let’s resist the securocrats

State security apparatus is overreaching - dangerously

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Opinion | 18 November 2016

New law makes whistle-blowing riskier

Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill criminalises false disclosures

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Opinion | 10 November 2016

Proposed Wolwerivier expansion is disastrous for Woodstock tenants

Removal plans to be laid bare in Bromwell Street court case on 9 November

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Opinion | 8 November 2016

Science and decolonisation: a way forward

“Science is an international endeavour - it doesn’t only belong to the West”

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Opinion | 8 November 2016

Women who fought apartheid commend achievements of Fees Must Fall

"We call for a cessation of all hostilities so that we can secure a climate for an inclusive discourse that moves us forward"

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Opinion | 6 November 2016

Academics and the Fallist movement

The Fallist demands are welcome, but academics who have suspended ethics and criticism hinder those very demands

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Opinion | 4 November 2016

“The mine has finished him and he can die anytime”

The terrible toll of silicosis on miners’ families

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Opinion | 21 October 2016