Yesterday, the Constitutional Court dismissed a request by the Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa and others to hear a direct appeal against the appointment of the O’Regan/Pikoli Commission of Inquiry.
Jacques van Heerden
Opinion | 2 October 2013
It's now nearly 50 days since Toronto filmmaker John Greyson and London, Ontario Doctor Tarek Loubani were arrested by Egyptian police while on their way to Gaza. They are on the 16th day of a hunger strike against their treatment and detention without charge.
Jack Lewis
Opinion | 2 October 2013
My name is Bayanda Mazwi and I am 17 years old. I am currently doing grade 11 at the Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT) in Khayelitsha. I live with my parents and my two younger siblings in the informal settlement of Monwabisi Park in Khayelitsha.
Bayanda Mazwi
Opinion | 2 October 2013
At the centre of South Africa’s economic inequality and resulting poverty is a lack of access to economic opportunity. Small and medium enterprises have a pivotal role to play in accelerating economic growth for poor and working class communities.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
Opinion | 1 October 2013
NdinguMambhathane, uTshaya, uMxesibe, uMgxubane, Khandanyawana, uMam’Khuma, Nxele, Bhaca, isizukulwana sika Ntswayibana noBhakaqana.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Opinion | 23 September 2013
For me heritage goes deeper than the colour of my skin. It starts from the very beginning, my birth.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
Opinion | 23 September 2013
A little north west of the road which runs from Ixopo into the hills of KwaZulu-Natal immortalised by Alan Paton, is a quiet, slow-moving enclave. The Kamberg Valley, just 78 kilometres east of Lesotho, kneels before the Drakensberg mountain range, crimped by the wind and harshness of the rocky land over millions of years to coalesce into a silencing, breathless serenity.
Greg Solik
Opinion | 23 September 2013
On 18 September 2013, twenty-one Social Justice Coalition activists will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate court for contravening provisions of the Regulation of Gatherings Act.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
Opinion | 18 September 2013
The Neil Aggett Memorial lecture was delivered by Jay Naidoo at Kingswood College, Grahamstown on 13 September 2013.
Jay Naidoo
Opinion | 17 September 2013