Opinion and Analysis

Our prisons are failing. They need to become correctional facilities

Our policies have become more punitive, yet our crime rate continues going up

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Opinion | 3 March 2020

IPID should focus on worst criminal cops, says expert report

By its own admission, the police watchdog does not have the resources to properly investigate all the cases in its workload

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Analysis | 25 February 2020

Ramaphosa should declare passenger rail a national disaster

Six actions that would help fix our rail system

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Opinion | 19 February 2020

The human cost of South Africa’s unsecured lending explosion

There are examples in the world of responsible lending to poor people, but not here

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Analysis | 13 February 2020

Informal settlements can be better planned

Re-blocking by NGOs is very different from “super-blocking” by local governments, argues Professor Steven Robins

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Opinion | 12 February 2020

Why Makhanda residents are taking their municipality to court

Sewage spills are an environmental and health crisis

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Opinion | 24 January 2020

Are our matric results really improving?

A close look at the statistics raises troubling questions

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Analysis | 22 January 2020

Is the National Lotteries Commission countering media exposés with advertising?

It has massively increased spending on advertorials over the past few years

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Analysis | 17 December 2019

Government must do more than talk about the water crisis

The solution for the Sekhukhune District Municipality’s waterless villages is obvious

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Opinion | 5 December 2019

How we internalise stigma and shame

Biko’s legacy can help us recognise the invader within

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Opinion | 4 December 2019

PRASA attempts to hire Eskom’s security

Investigators have already found irregularities involving some of the companies

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Analysis | 27 November 2019

Fierce battle over future of landmark Cape Town site

Developers and government manoeuvre to realise ten-storey buildings at River Club, while Khoi organisations fight for land they say is sacred

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Analysis | 27 November 2019

Battle to recover R42 billion in unclaimed pension money

Plans to march to Parliament

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Analysis | 19 November 2019

Cape Town’s battle for spatial justice

There is a disconnect between what the City says and what it does when it comes to housing, development, and urban planning.

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Analysis | 31 October 2019

The chief, the mines and the lost Bakgatla billions

Painstaking work of Baloyi Commission may come to nothing

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Analysis | 25 October 2019