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Deciding moment: President Cyril Ramaphosa

D-Day for Ramaphosa

The case in the apex court concerns an application by the EFF and the ATM after parliament rejected a Section 89 panel report that found a prima facie case requiring further…

Author Sello Hatang with Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane

Too many questions, just enough truth: Justice as a lifelong pursuit

The thread that held the conversation together was clear from the beginning: justice. Not the abstract kind confined to courtrooms and legal textbooks but justice as a lived…

Thinkers: Trevor Tambo (left) and Lunga Williams. Photo: Brian Sokutu

A stamp for Mama Winnie

Former aides reveal how she became the first South African to be honoured on a postage stamp while still alive, and how the 2017 tribute reached her in hospital before her death

An indignity: Robben Island, a place synonymous with pain, resistance, suffering and sacrifice, is being reframed as somewhere you can … check in. But not all real estate should be optimised. Some spaces carry a weight that cannot be monetised without consequence. Photo: Moheen Reeyad

Robben Island is not a place to sleep

The idea of sleeping in former Robben Island guard houses feels like a line we shouldn’t be crossing — not because of what it could earn but because of what it risks eroding

Palestinian protesters hold posters of Palestinian prisoners demanding a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel in the West Bank city of Nablus. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Legalising murder: Israel’s shift from control to elimination

Israel has passed a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, codifying practices previously carried out extrajudicially. With conviction rates in military courts…

Travel: Visitor numbers are rising again and airports like OR Tambo are getting busier. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Tourism must be SA’s defining story

Although global instability may temporarily redirect travel flows, the real opportunity lies not in benefiting from conflict elsewhere but in ensuring that South Africa becomes a…

Formidable woman: Sally, her husband Nthato and their children. Sally was a political powerhouse in her own
right, bringing impeccable struggle credentials.

Standing in her own name

This reflective review revisits the political courage and quiet influence that made Sally Motlana indispensable to the liberation struggle

Joe Latakgomo

Flags at half‐mast as Durban remembers giants

The prestigious Mount Edgecombe Estate, home to one of South Africa’s iconic golf courses, honoured long-standing resident, former club captain and high‐handicap golfer Kiruban…

Barbie Kyagulanyi’s ordeal reveals how love can become a powerful, non-violent force driving resistance, courage and conviction in Uganda’s struggle for meaningful democracy and good governance

Barbie Kyagulanyi Ordeal: How love is animating the struggle for meaningful democracy and good Governance

Barbie Kyagulanyi’s ordeal reveals how love can become a powerful, non-violent force driving resistance, courage and conviction in Uganda’s struggle for meaningful democracy and…

No more heckling: Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, who has just stepped down as DA leader, says he
leaves the party in better shape than he found it. Their duty now is to help build South Africa, not scream at
other parties. Photo: Supplied

Leaving is never easy but look at us now

Not long ago, it was unthinkable that the leader of the DA would ever walk up the steps to the Union Buildings

Manifestation: A 2024 artwork, titled we wanted to come home, by Hank Willis Thomas.

Layers of meaning

Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks

After being diagnosed with HIV at 33, retired Constitutional Court justice Edwin Cameron never thought he’d make it to 40. He’s now 73 and part of a generation that is growing older thanks to antiretrovirals and, he says, the activism that made sure it was available in South Africa. Photo: Stefan Els
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HIV made him expect to die at 40. At 73, Edwin Cameron asks: Who’s planning for our ageing survivors?

At 33, the retired Constitutional Court justice thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death because of Aids to a chronic, manageable…

Prominent United States civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an outspoken critic of apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 84

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies aged 84, family says

The founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition — a US civil rights and social justice organisation — was an outspoken critic of apartheid in South Africa

Up, up and away: Under President Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa has done very well since his 2018 State of the
Nation Address and is on an upward trajectory, the writer argues.

Tide turns on SA’s age of hope

The new dawn that the President spoke about in 2018 is no longer an elusive mirage

Paying respects: ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe visiting JB Marks’ grave. Photo: Supplied

ANC at 114: From Morogoro to Moruleng

The Morogoro Consultative Conference, convened under the quiet but resolute leadership of Oliver Reginald Tambo, was no celebration. It was a reckoning

As part of Minister Nzimande’s extensive official visit to the Republic of Tunisia, earlier, the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) signed a partnership to scale up science, technology and innovation cooperation with Tunisia.

Tunisia: A democratic dream destroyed

Fourteen years ago, Tunisia was the very emblem of hope

Unyielding Pan-Africanist: The late great Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.
Photo: Wikipedia

The unforgettable Sobukwe

Fort Hare must be to the African what Stellenbosch University is to the Afrikaner

His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa at the G20 Leaders’ Summit.  GCIS. Photo: File

South Africa’s G20 coup de grâce

By the summit’s end, Ramaphosa emerged with an elevated global profile

Francesca Albanese, told an audience at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening that universities, corporations and states have a legal and ethical responsibility to halt what she described as genocide taking place in Gaza. (Nelson Mandela Foundation)

UCT hosts key address as Albanese prepares to present Gaza genocide report to UN

The UN special rapporteur said her report identifies 48 entities linked to ‘displacement and replacement’, a policy she says has taken Palestinians off their land

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occuopied Territories, Francesca Albanese addressed a packed Groote Kerk in Cape Town om SUnday afternoon, 26 October 2025. Photo: David Harrison

Francesca Albanese to present report on the Gaza genocide

The UN special rapporteur will present her report “Gaza Genocide: Collective Crime” to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, from Cape Town