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Dr Nkosikhulule Nyembezi is a researcher, policy analyst and human rights activist
President Cyril Ramaphosa often envisions the history of a democratic SA pivoting on the actions of heroic individuals.
There is so much that has become apparent as the ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled his party’s 2026 local government election manifesto at Riverside Park in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg last Sunday, ahead of the seventh local…
All we can do is remember our liberation struggle dead because we can never hope to fully understand what they and their families went through as a result of their sacrifices.
In politics, especially in an election year, numbers rarely speak for themselves. Leaders and ordinary citizens must frame and interpret numbers. Opportunists often weaponise numbers.
Parliament’s portfolio committee on justice and constitutional development takes up a strange and yet crucial question this month on which additional categories of candidate disqualification should apply.
Whether or not citizens ever approve of the anti-corruption measures taken by Ramaphosa so far is uncertain.
On one side, a self-defeating mess. On the other, calibrated hardball tactics
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has scheduled the weekend of June 20-21 for voter registration for the local government elections.
At the stroke of midnight on each date of the termination of an employment or client relationship, the shutters came down on millions of South Africans unaware of the money owed to them as a result of retirement savings they have not…
As finance minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his budget speech on Wednesday, setting the GNU’s priorities for disgruntled voters
An indelibly resonant Gospel parable is the one about the vineyard owner with two sons whom he commanded to work on his property.
From now on, following a Judicial Conduct Tribunal finding that Eastern Cape judge president Selby Mbenenge is not guilty of gross misconduct but has fallen short of standards expected of a member of the judiciary, the judiciary’s…
While the government’s efforts to support economic recovery are gaining momentum, we must all do more to reduce unemployment, poverty and inequality significantly.
It is 9.05am on a Tuesday, and I am listening online to the deliberations of the October 21 portfolio committee on home affairs.
Sometimes you need to pull on the thread. That is how it felt when auditor-general Tsakane Maluleke announced a “significant milestone” to the parliamentary standing committee on the auditor-general on November 14.
