Local government elections taking place in Gauteng, residents vote for their chosen councilers - Photo' Delwyn Verasamy Governance re-imagined: Is politics without parties possible?

In 2016, ahead of his 85th birthday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned an opinion piece for The Washington Post on the topic of euthanasia. Challenging the dominant church view, he wrote that “dying ...

The windows remain broken, and Ramaphosa seems to be signalling that he will keep looking the other way. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) Tacit acceptance of unethical behaviour will be this ...

Zuma has become symbol of South Africa’s deep-seated problems but, if we are to move on, we must lose our obsession with him ...

I am thinking of Nosicelo Mtebeni, a final-year law student from Fort Hare University in East London, who was gruesomely killed and dismembered by her boyfriend after an altercation. That this ...

There’s an iconic scene in the movie Network when Peter Finch flips the script of his news report and screams into the camera, “I don’t have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad ...

In the past five years, the South African debate on climate change and ecological restoration has been elevated to one of the main state agendas. The role played by young people among many others has ...

“Human mobility is not an invasion. It is not an intrusion. It is a human reality as old as humankind that we, as responsible leaders, have to learn to manage,” said William Lacy Swing, of the ...

July 2021 was a harrowing month for all who love South Africa. As soon as the dust settled on the looting and unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, we started trying to make sense of the senseless ...

Within the feminist movement, African feminism occupies a unique position that challenges disempowering constructs issuing from both Western and African paradigms. Contrary to the disinformation about ...

This essay, exploring how a classic 18th century gothic novel shines some light on modern-day South Africa is in response to the competition’s prompt: How do art and social justice influence each ...

The success of the genre, especially that of boy band BTS, subverts the archaic notion that only English-language music can have worldwide appeal and that celebrities need to appear on pedestals ...