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Sipho Hlongwane is The Daily Vox’s acting managing editor. A published author, columnist and reporter by training School of Hard Knocks, he has covered some of South Africa’s most vivid protest marches, wildcat strikes and press conferences. His scariest assignments were for fancy women’s magazines. He obsesses over football and popular music for fun.
For the first time, the tie-breaker for knockout round qualifying came down to the disciplinary records of two otherwise evenly-matched sides
If Julius Malema is a fascist, and his party is a mere extension of his fascism, then everything they say can be dismissed outright, can it not?
The land question can be avoided no longer – it is of crucial economic, social and legal importance.
South Africa has an undernourished literary tradition, where even among the sophisticated one may find confusion over written work and writers.
The damage done by state capture does not blind us to the fact that the democratic project belongs to all citizens
The good news is that South Africans have chosen to go forwards – that choice is evident in the rejection of state capture from all quarters.
Transformation is not a magical wand that excludes black owners from playing by the same rules as everybody else.
The local level is the coalface of government work; it’s where failure and state capture hurts the most.
The ANC, having struggled to rectify the theft of land, finds that it is firmly on the people’s agenda.
The state capture report is like a Pandora’s Box for the president: soon all the dirty secrets will tumble out, and the vultures are already circling.
Who has the correct struggle credentials, public service record, broad public support and has become the face of the fight for good governance?
The state capture report released on Wednesday did not contain any good news for the president.
The party has decried factionalism at every national and policy conference in the last decade and has done nothing about it.
With the ICC exit, Jacob Zuma is hell-bent on destroying his party’s international justice record.
What does South Africa know about Bashir’s war in Darfur that the ICC prosecutors don’t know?
It shouldn’t have come to this, but we should be very grateful that we have not been short of people willing to stand up to the plunder of the state.
The professional troll from Cape Town is luckily entirely unable to exclude child grant recipients from university bursaries.
Statistics prove that South Africa’s police are deadlier than their American counterparts. And they’re also more likely to die.
The country’s best and brightest under 35 will be unveiled at a gala event on June 23 2016. They’ll be featured in this Friday’s edition of the M&G.
As debates rage about Qwabe’s treatment of a white waitress and the money donated to her thereafter, Sipho Hlongwane asks a question left unanswered.
