Zuma’s free education plan is a ferocious hospital pass to his...
Finance minister Malusi Gigaba was the very picture of discomfort on Saturday. He was at the 54th national conference of the African National Congress,...
Mmusi Maimane’s epic response to #Sona2015 fiasco [Full Text]
The DA's parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane delivered a compelling rebuttal to President Jacob Zuma's state of the nation address in parliament on Tuesday. And...
Palestinian Water Expert: SA Does Not Need Israeli Water Expertise
The water crisis in Cape Town is due to mismanagement, water expert and Palestinian citizen of Israel Mustafa Abu Raiya said in a Facebook...
The results are trickling in slowly in the Western Cape #LGE2021
With some way to go in the votes counting in the Western Cape, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is sitting on over 50% of the...
FMF Leaders Question The Ethics Of Fasiha Hassan Accepting International Peace...
Former student leader and current member of African National Congress (ANC) communication team Fasiha Hassan has been awarded the Student Peace Prize (SPP) for...
Zuma’s free education announcement cautiously welcomed by student leaders
On Saturday, the Presidency announced a new higher education policy, which promised free education for TVET students, and a wide-ranging grant system for poor...
The state of civic education in South Africa
One of the biggest takeaways from the 2021 local government elections was a massive decline in voter turnout. There are a number of reasons...
Johannesburg Teachers Tired Of “Cash For Post” Corruption
Teachers from a school in the far north of Johannesburg say they are tired of the corruption in the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE)....
Rebels & Rage: How Adam Habib Saw #FeesMustFall
The Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests that seized South Africa from 2015-2016 were a right mess. On the one hand, students were protesting for...
Democracy Works Academy: Training Tomorrow’s Leaders
Calling all young South African leaders with an interest in building democracy!
The Democracy Works Foundation (DWF), in partnership with the In-Transformation Initiative, introduces...
Ramaphosa Cabinet 2.0: Who’s In, Who’s Out, What It All Means
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his second cabinet reshuffle on Thursday afternoon, a change enforced by the death of the environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa,...
Blade Nzimande finally announces 2022 NSFAS applications dates
Higher education minister, Dr Blade Nzimande announced the opening of the 2022 National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) applications. During an October 28 briefing,...
Goodbye Ambassador Lenk, You Won’t Be Missed
As far as trolls go, Arthur Lenk, Israel's representative to Pretoria, was astutely ambassadorial. Mention Israel on Twitter and Ambassador would pop around to...
Minority Front: SA Must Have Separate Ministries For Minorities
"The day Indian minorities say they don't need the Minority Front (MF) to protect their rights and that they're comfortable in the new democracy...
The New Apartheid shatters the idea that apartheid ever ended
In Dr. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s second book The New Apartheid, he examines how apartheid has reinvented itself. This book follows his first, Democracy and Delusion....
Stung DA Right Wing Lashes Out At The People
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The dust is settling on the 2019 national elections, and the recriminations amongst the losers have begun in earnest. The...
The Gender Summit Failed To Impress
President Cyril Ramaphosa made some lofty promises in his address at the National Gender Summit held in Pretoria on November 1. Gender activists, civil society...
ASEAN Should Show True Leadership On Rohingya This General Assembly
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Two years on, Asia is no closer to ending its worst refugee crisis in decades. Over 900,000 Rohingya are in Bangladesh alone, including 759,000...
Rebuild SA Wants To Give Political Voice To Mining Communities
For the youth, for mining communities, and for entrepreneurs. Those are the people Blessing Ramoba's party Rebuild South Africa (RSA) wants to represent. The...
Women’s Prize Winner Kamila Shamsie On Writing And Her Book “Home...
Writer Kamila Shamsie humanised the political story of a British family caught up by Isis - and in so doing, won the Women's Prize...
