Opinion and Analysis

Vodacom and MTN: hands off WhatsApp and Skype

Companies want to restrict our access to new data services because they're harder to spy on

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Opinion | 3 February 2016

Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof

It’s because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

World leaders fail to face our biggest economic crisis

No change in mindset at World Economic Forum in Davos means job losses will continue

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

How a rural hospital has become a model of good care

If all hospitals were like this we could implement National Health Insurance tomorrow

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Opinion | 28 January 2016

Will North West premier depose tainted tribal leader?

Or do too many politicians have a vested interest in his continued reign?

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Analysis | 25 January 2016

Cosatu decision to host WFTU questioned

Federation's hosting of controversial congress might cause rift with overseas trade unions

WEF has no answers for job losses

Klaus Schwab has blinkered view of robotics revolution and employment

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Opinion | 25 January 2016

Echoes of 1998 in the student protests

Time for a new economic policy

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Opinion | 20 January 2016

Concerns that drought and weak currency will push up food prices

The skyrocketing price of both white and yellow maize during 2015 as well as estimates of only half of the usual crop sizes being planted for the 2016 season raise concerns for food price inflation.

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Analysis | 13 January 2016