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Our unemployment rate , currently sitting at 32.7% makes for very depressing reading. The picture gets even more gloomy when we consider the fact that people who are willing and still able, have stopped looking for work. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

It’s a tough life

Our unemployment rate , currently sitting at 32.7% makes for very depressing reading. The picture gets even more gloomy when we consider the fact that people who are willing and…

President Paul Kagame hosted the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA) at the Kigali Convention Centre from May 18 to 22

Nuclear energy is a must

Africa must embrace nuclear energy to power economic growth and meet Agenda 2063 goals

Africa does not lack ideals; it has proclaimed them often and well. What it now requires is discipline, execution and political courage on a continental scale. The most fitting tribute to the founders will not be remembrance. It will be readiness.

Africa must rise, for good

Our simple argument is that the Second Scramble for Africa shouldn’t happen on our watch when we have so much at our disposal to avert this age-old plunder. It is a shameful…

The unemployment rate has climbed again, reaching 32.7%, while youth unemployment has surged to 45.8%.

Joblessness remains a bugbear

This is what makes youth unemployment especially dangerous. A country in which nearly half of young work-seekers cannot find employment is not merely experiencing a cyclical…

The IDC should establish an independent forum to address employee relations issues.
 Photo: -File

Editorial: IDC decline should be arrested

Let us be fair: allegations of a deteriorating corporate culture within the institution remain just that—allegations—until proven otherwise. However, the issues presented to us…

As we commemorate Workers Day 2026, and 32 years into democracy, it is time for us to reflect on the rights of workers and confront unemployment. (SAFTU)

Editorial: Workers’ Day 32 years on

As we commemorate Workers Day 2026, and 32 years into democracy, it is time for us to reflect on the rights of workers and confront unemployment

On 27 April, Freedom Day we hand over our report card to those — too numerous to mention — who laid down their lives for the freedom we enjoy.
Photo: ANC Gauteng

Freedom in our lifetime

We will tell our fallen heroes that when they ran to the world in anguish seeking help against the racist Nationalist regime, at present, the world looks to us for help

The IDC should establish an independent forum to address employee relations issues.
 Photo: -File

IDC deal must be scrutinised

Ramaphosa must now turn to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), which faces allegations of corporate governance failures similar to the PIC case. The latest concerns are…

The commemoration, Kwibuka (which means “to remember” in Kinyarwanda), begins on April 7. The country remains in mourning for the rest of the month. Photo: Supplied

Kwibuka32: Never and never again

But as they mourn, remember and reflect on their past, Rwandans are building their country into one of the continent’s shining examples of what can be done when the people unite…

US President Donald Trump and his Israeli ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s shambolic war has shut the Strait of Hormuz, creating a diplomatic fallout with US allies. Photo: Avi Ohayon (GPO)

Easter in the time of war

The senseless US-Israel war has caused economic tremors around the world and sucked all of us into an unprecedented crisis characterised by soaring oil prices, the wanton…

Attorney Chinette Gallichan was shot in broad daylight outside the offices of the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the Johannesburg CBD

Anger over lawyer’s murder

The young lawyer was shot dead in broad daylight outside the offices of the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the Johannesburg CBD

The Sharpeville Massacre, as the bloodletting ordeal has come to be known, was a watershed moment in the lives of our people, standing up to be counted, demanding to be heard, claiming their rights as equal citizens in the land of their birth.

Editorial: Sharpville 69 deserve more than this

Saturday, 21 March, marks 66 years since 69 people were killed and close to 200 others injured when police opened fire on marchers in Sharpeville on this date in 1960. All things…

A US marine observes nearby vessels from the amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), during a strait transit at the Strait of Hormuz. (Cpl. Adam Dublinske/Released)

Editorial: The high cost of war

The war in the Middle East isn’t coming to our doorstep- it is already here. You will feel it at the pumps, in the supermarket aisles and in your beer mug. The ripple effect of…

The genocidal mentality of the US and Israel is a supremacist nexus of settler colonialism and endless wars. With Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu presiding, the logic replicates with renewed force.
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US, Israel triggering WWIII

All Trump and his cheerleader Netanyahu have done is drag the rest of us to the precipice of World War III, a move all abstemious global voices should condemn in the strongest…

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.

Editorial: A decent budget but let’s see…

On paper, Godongwana presented a credible framework that marks a turning point for South Africa

For THL, an iconic South African company that employs thousands, its end is bitter and must be averted.
Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Editorial: Tongaat Hulett must be saved

At a time when rampant unemployment — one of the country’s biggest crises and a national emergency — takes root, the looming jobs bloodbath will decimate not only the sugar…

Joburg mayor Dada Morero, alongside MMC Jack Sekwaila is addressing the ongoing water challenges facing Johannesburg in a media briefing at the Brixton Reservoir.

Editorial: Taps – and residents’ patience – run dry

As President Cyril Ramaphosa prepared to present his State of the Nation address (Sona) on Thursday, his second in the government of national unity (GNU), residents of some…

Despite producing enough food, South Africa is experiencing a deepening hunger crisis. (Madelene Cronje)

Editorial: Hunger in the land of plenty

Despite producing enough food, South Africa is experiencing a deepening hunger crisis. New research shows that even households receiving food aid are skipping meals — and…

Ayanda Dludla was the driver of the minibus that  was involved an an accident and led to the death of 14 children.

Tears for Vaal crash children

We hope the families will find closure and justice will be done

Graphic: John McCann

Editorial: Time to solve the maths question

According to education experts, the number of learners taking pure math as a subject has been steadily declining