Opinion

Health policy has become a confused mess

The health department has withdrawn welcome changes to isolation, quarantine and contact tracing policies

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Opinion | 29 December 2021

We should not let people suffer and die alone in hospital

Restrictive hospital visitor policies don’t make sense anymore

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Opinion | 14 December 2021

Ventilation is key to controlling Covid

We need a national project to improve the air we breathe in buildings and vehicles

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Opinion | 10 December 2021

Booster vaccines must be offered to older people immediately

The six month gap is too long. It should be reduced to four.

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Opinion | 9 December 2021

Drugs are not the problem. The way we think about them is

We need to solve the social issues that make drug use a solution

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Opinion | 7 December 2021

Universal social security is now a matter of urgency

Government must implement a policy for either a basic income grant or a grant for unemployed people

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Opinion | 3 December 2021

OUTA: Government is wasting money and using delaying tactics to hide information

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse wonders why SANRAL opposed a request for information and then didn’t turn up for court

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Opinion | 26 November 2021

Our faulty approach to life sentences is catching up with us

Our prisons are crowded with “lifers”, at great cost to us all

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Opinion | 10 November 2021

India’s Supreme Court strikes a blow against the use of spyware

Ruling offers ways to hold governments and companies accountable

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Opinion | 10 November 2021

Elections 2021: where are the promises to our children?

Bureaucracy is suffocating our crèches. Local governments can do something about it.

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Opinion | 28 October 2021

How mining erodes the rights of women

Women are also marginalised when it comes to the economic benefits that mining brings

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Opinion | 7 October 2021

The Information Regulator: Our new transparency superhero?

The law allowing the Information Regulator to enforce PAIA requests took effect in July

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Opinion | 28 September 2021

How to buy an affordable home in the Western Cape

Finance Linked Individual Subsidy will no longer be dependent on bond approval

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Opinion | 20 September 2021

How to boost the Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Government has got a few things right, but there’s so much more it can still do

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Opinion | 18 August 2021

Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Those who dispute that the Covid vaccines used in South Africa are safe and effective are just wrong

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Opinion | 10 August 2021

Harsh prison terms won’t solve the crisis of gender-based violence

The certainty of arrest and prosecution, not long sentences, is what deters crime

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Opinion | 9 August 2021