It is no exaggeration to say that South Africa is in the midst of the most important political development since 1994.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 17 November 2014
Several Cape Town landmarks have been defaced in recent weeks. Here members of The Tokolos Stencil Collective explain why they have done this.
Members of the Tokolos Stencil Collective
Opinion | 13 November 2014
Forbes Grant Senior Secondary School is not safe. The flimsy fence structure around the school is easily breakable. On the school’s perimeter, the fence has gaping holes in many places. In some parts, there is no fence at all.
Daniel Linde
Opinion | 12 November 2014
The very public scrap between former trade union leaders John Copelyn and Marcel Golding, both now billionaire business people, has raised a crucial question for the labour movement: the role of union investment companies.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 12 November 2014
Calvin* has spent over half of his life in Cape Flats gangs. Today, he is 26 years old and a high-ranking member of both the Mongrels street gang and the 28s prison gang.
Dariusz Dziewanski
Opinion | 10 November 2014
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I tender this classic apology on behalf of many of my fellow journalists who have recently misled the public about the situation regarding the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) and the Cosatu federation.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 3 November 2014
In my school when a girl falls pregnant, her parents are called in and the girl is kicked out of classes. She is only allowed to return after she gives birth.
Sisipho Xhaxha
Opinion | 30 October 2014
On her return from Sierra Leone, epidemiologist Kathryn Stinson explains what must be done to manage the Ebola epidemic.
Kathryn Stinson
Opinion | 29 October 2014
On 26 October, former Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan resigned from the board of Hosken Consolidated Investments, which owns etv. Here is her resignation letter.
Barbara Hogan
Opinion | 28 October 2014