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Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, chair of the Moral Regeneration Movement
CORRUPTION

The journey to restore morality in South Africa

The Moral Regeneration Movement chaired by Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa is focusing on action against violence, declining social cohesion and moral decay

  • Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela
6 min read
Nelson Mandela quite rightly understood that we cannot move from apartheid into a new constitutional dispensation without a fundamental moral re-orientation. Photo: Walter Dhladhla/AFP
MORAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT

Moral regeneration has failed miserably in South Africa

Cynical politicians have repurposed ubuntu into people helping one another to eat a little

  • Piet Naudé
6 min read
CONTROL

South Africa – where hope dances with despair

With nothing to look forward to and no respect, how can we expect unemployed, beaten-down young people to behave as if they have a stake in the future?

  • Hugo ka Canham
7 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
EDUCATION

Matriculants need moral guidance

Institutions and families must teach values in a decaying society and adverse economic conditions

  • Tutu Faleni
6 min read
Topless activists of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen protest against porn industry during Paris’s eroticism fair on March 23 2013 in Le Bourget.
GENDER VIOLENCE

Porn and morals: Where does the truth lie?

Icasa is wrong in its interpretation of what makes us accept or reject something. The issue of dignity and abuse is not a science, but a morality.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Moral Regeneration Movement chairperson Smangaliso Mkhatshwa.
KWANELE SOSIBO

SA’s ethical compass is defective

The Moral Regeneration Movement has done little to be proud of in the 10 years since its launch, writes Kwanele Sosibo.

  • Kwanele Sosibo
6 min read