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Young people’s digital fluency and ambition make them vulnerable to crime. Photo: Reuters

Southern Africa has cracked down on fake news, but may have gone too far

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Eswatini, South Africa and Zimbabwe have implemented new rules on disinformation. But these may have unintended consequences

Too late: Bhekindlela Mwelase died in November last year, six months before the Constitutional Court dignified his claim to the land that he had worked on as a labour tenant for most of his life. (Max Bastard/African Eyes Photography)

State’s failures impede land reform

Scathing Constitutional Court judgment bemoans land reform department’s inability to get job done in time

Call to action: Former judge Yvonne Mokgoro says society must prioritise women’s rights. (Muntu Vilakazi/City Press/Gallo Images)

SA’s women are fighting for social justice remarkable women

Female activists are at the forefront of claiming socioeconomic rights through the courts

Panelists Siki Mgabadeli and Angelo Fick at the critical thinking forum centred on the education crisis in South Africa

​‘The current state of basic education should cause outrage’

Take it back to the basics and focus on reading, writing and understanding

The winners at the Accenture Rising Star Awards

​Winners announced at the Accenture Rising Star Awards

Recognising and developing South Africa’s brightest stars helps to grow the economy

Big hits: Members of the successful boy band BTS — V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and j-hope — visit the Empire State Building in New York City earlier this year. (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Get on the Hallyu Wave, K-pop is taking over the world

The music phenomenon has an unusual origin: South Korea ‘created’ it to pay off an IMF loan – and now its global fanbase is exploding

South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, even higher than some countries at war

Cops drop charges against #TheTotalShutDown GP

Some of the charges levelled against the movement include violating the permit, intimidating the president and violence at the Union Buildings

Besides the politics of womens’ bodies

What I learned about freedom at the Oslo Freedom Forum

‘When you choose whose struggle you give a platform to, you decide who is afforded human dignity and human worth’

Gauteng premier David Makhura has prioritised creating employment for Gauteng’s two million unemployed youths. ‘We urge young people to seize the opportunities made available to them by their government.’

Tshepo 1 million: transforming the lives of the youth

Addessing youth unemployment is a key priority on the premier’s agenda

“The problem is that some anal​ysts speculate that Viceroy is purposely using its publicity for profit.”

Is Capitec Another Steinhoff? Not Quite.

Capitec stock fell by about 20% when Viceroy Research released a report claiming that Capitec bank “is a wolf in ​a sheep’s clothing and a loan shark”

‘Faki’idata ngwana

ANC presidential hopefuls have used Khwezi as a political gimmick to curry favour

The ANC national conference is looming, and presidential candidates have been using every cheap trick in the book to win at Nasrec.

(Mihal Durdu/Shutterstock)

South Africa’s #MeToo gap: No accountability for high-profile men

We need more hashtags and awareness, but more importantly we need action and accountability.

An international children’s organisation has told the South African Human Rights Commission that teachers in Limpopo who have long been in the profession use corporal punishment because that is the only form of discipline they know.

Discipline in schools: What the law says you can and can’t do

There is a difference between discipline and corporal punishment: one means teaching acceptable behaviours and the other intends grievous bodily harm

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Dismissed student teachers are suspicious of ‘untrustworthy’ education NPO

Some students say that NPO Numeric has an illegitimate relationship with bursary scheme Funza Lushaka, as it uses student bursaries to fund itself.

Misread: Some saw Meg Rickards’s ‘battered’ face

UCT SRC demands release of fees commission report, may march To Parliament

Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are calling for the immediate release of the Fees Commission Report and a 0% fee increase.

Linkin Park has conveyed its condolences to the family of the woman who died when a structure collapsed at its concert venue in Cape Town.

Five reasons Linkin Park’s music matters

What’s pretty profound about Linkin Park is that it’s men singing about feelings.