Opinion and Analysis

Investigation into social grant fraud is a flop

SASSA investigation into SRD grant application system fails to answer crucial questions

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Analysis | 27 November 2024

Why wage inequality matters

New legislation empowers shareholders to limit outrageous CEO remuneration

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Opinion | 14 November 2024

How the Legal Resources Centre has fought for human rights

Speech by Geoff Budlender on accepting the fourth George Bizos Human Rights Award

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Opinion | 4 November 2024

Crime statistics: who are we to believe?

SAPS and Stats SA figures are wildly different

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Analysis | 22 October 2024

Social grant fraud: SASSA needs to act, not deny

Instead of wrongly accusing us of illegal hacking, SASSA should take urgent action to fix the extremely serious problems we described

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Analysis | 18 October 2024

Court interdicts are being used to stifle protest

Mining companies are especially guilty

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Opinion | 18 October 2024

What I learned on my journey through breast cancer

In Breast Cancer Awareness Month we can all do something to help

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Opinion | 16 October 2024

We discovered massive fraud in SASSA’s grant system

SASSA needs to disclose how this happened and the scale of the problem

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Analysis | 14 October 2024

How business can help end homelessness

Homelessness is a shared, fixable problem

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Opinion | 10 October 2024

New blasting limits set for mines - at last

Chief Inspector of Mines publishes South Africa’s first mine blasting standards

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Opinion | 8 October 2024

The fate of the GNU will depend on what it does to fix collapsing municipalities

The Government of National Unity offers an opportunity to take practical steps

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Opinion | 3 October 2024

Access to information: Public institutions are flouting the law

Only 20% of municipalities met their obligations to report to the Information Regulator

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Opinion | 1 October 2024

Joburg’s temporary emergency accommodation policy a misstep

The housing crisis needs to be addressed with long-term, stable, sustainable housing alternatives

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Opinion | 30 September 2024

Why the Woolies boss was paid 1,300 times as much as a shopfloor worker

Report by Just Share exposes pay gaps in the retail and wholesale sector

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Analysis | 18 September 2024

Farmers need support after devastating Riverlands flood

A lack of security of tenure and of agricultural support from government has compounded the disaster

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Opinion | 20 August 2024

My three-month battle with the Unemployment Insurance Fund

Appeal to the new Minister of Labour to fix the problems with the fund

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Opinion | 15 August 2024