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Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)

Yes, victims can bring Gambia’s dictator to justice

Gambian President Adama Barrow has said that he will await the report of the country’s truth commission before pursuing Jammeh’s possible extradition

(The Times/Esa Alexander)

Failure to govern geoengineering could destabilise peace and security

Failure to govern new technologies to combat global warming could aggravate existing threats to international peace and security

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor

Putting science on the continental agenda

Speech by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor at the Science Forum South Africa, CSIR, Pretoria, December 8 2015

The organisation’s push for a more progressive approach to what may be done during the month of Ramadan is

A day to weigh up the continent

May 25 is Africa Day. It is neither a day for Afropessimists to gloat nor one for Afro-optimists to say the African dream has been achieved.

Battleground: The Western Cape’s decision to close schools

Public participation in education under threat

Motshekga’s reported plans to make it easier to close schools could jeopardise pupils’ rights.

Angie Motshekga provided no understanding of the facts around the cheating in the matric exams of 2014.

Best response to a cheating scandal? Completely confuse everybody

The conflicting statements about cheating during the 2014 matric exams equals complete national confusion.

EFF leaders Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu.

Is Parliament offended by the truth?

Letter from Parliament: EFF MP Andile Mngxitima believes that actually, the struggle against power is the struggle to return meaning to words.

Refugee children win right to learn

Refugee children win right to learn

But debilitating education hurdles remain for many foreign children in legal limbo.

‘Radical’ change is our collective responsibility

‘Radical’ change is our collective responsibility

Politics aside, South Africans share aspirations for economic growth under legitimate leadership.

Former DA Parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko will not raise her hand to lead the official opposition party.

Mazibuko’s tea-tray ‘klap’ is a wake-up call for blacks in denial

Black people who forget they are black suffer, writes Andile Mngxitama.

Free spirit: Robert Sobukwe believed that brutal times also offered possibilities for imagining new pathways to freedom.

Africa is still waiting for the dawn

The current assault on freedoms would make the pan-Africanist Robert Sobukwe turn in his grave.

The ANC is not the only party that brought ‘liberation’ to South Africa.

Vote ‘no’ to the nightmare of Zuma’s ANC

SA deserves better than to be ruled by a party that flirts with totalitarianism, writes Barney Pityana.

IFP members campaign in Soweto for this year’s polls.

Buthelezi: IFP fought for good citizenship

The Inkatha Freedom Party prepared a generation of young people to become active participants in a liberated South Africa.

Graphic: John McCann

The state must do textbooks by the book

Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?

Our courts are schooling the state

Our courts are schooling the state

With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.

A group of ‘EFF defenders’ led by Lufuno Gogoro say that they are disgruntled

Soapbox: How Malema became Mao’lema

A magical moment took place recently. A symbolic reconstitution of 60 000 into a single force in the form of Malema as Mao, writes Andile Mngxitama.

Actor Donald Glover poses with his award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Schools left in an intolerable infrastructure limbo

Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils’ safety and health are now at risk.

The Limpopo government said it would work with the Malamulele task team to restore normality in the area after residents reacted angrily to the news.

Elections: It’s time to formulate a new democratic society

Mass protests and the violent reaction of the state indicate that SA is in a period of possible rearticulation of politics, says Andile Mngxitama.

Children celebrate the independence of Zanzibar from Britain in 1963. Soon afterwards

Zanzibar: Revolt spiced up island life

We can learn from the Zanzibar uprising, which liberated people and freed the land, writes Andile Mngxitama.

Graphic: John McCann

Progress betrayed by loopholes and double-digit deadlines

New infrastructure norms allow far too long to eliminate vast gaps between schools.