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True to form: Every detail of La Concorde tells a story. Giflo Property Developers has taken a heritage asset
that could easily have been neglected and positioned it for another 50 years of relevance. Picture: Supplied

A love letter to La Concorde

The office park in Paarl has character, scale and history that cannot be replicated. Developers have listened to the building and acknowledged its story

Figure of unity: Former ANC president Oliver Tambo knew liberation required courage and legitimacy, an appeal to universal principles that could bind disparate nations into solidarity. Photo: The Presidency

Oliver Tambo: The quiet architect of liberation and the Moses of a nation in exile

The ANC president was the quiet architect of liberation, carrying a people through the long wilderness of exile, sustaining hope when the promised land seemed impossibly distant

Against the odds: South Africa’s democracy has matured in visible and subtle ways, the Constitution enshrined gender equality,  expanded access to education, healthcare and economic opportunities.  Photo: ConCourt

Three  decades on: Assessing South Africa’s Progress since 1994

The democratic breakthrough of 1994 stands as one of the most significant political achievements of the modern era. Against the odds, South Africa chose negotiation over civil…

Hope: Zimbabweans standing in line to cast their vote, hoping for change. Photo: ZEC

Freedom in South Africa is incomplete until all SADC nations achieve genuine democracy

If we are to honour our freedom, we must also stand in sympathy with our neighbours, whose struggles remind us that democracy is never guaranteed. Their pain must be felt as our…

Selective memory: There is a privilege in being able to forget history. It belongs mostly to those whose lives were not shaped by it. Photo: GCIS

Freedom, memory and the curious outrage of comfortable men

As we commemorate freedom, a familiar chorus returns: that South Africa has too many ‘race laws’, that redress has gone too far, that equality now demands forgetting

Privilege: White farmer myth survives while African farmers face a different historical landscape.  Photo Delwyn Verasamy

The great white farmer myth distorts black agrarian input

When foreign governments, organisations or political networks speak about offering South African farmers land, visas or farming opportunities abroad, they should define farming…

Affirmation: Solidarity with Cuba, marking 65 years since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by the imperialist US regime, which sought to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Photo: SACP

We stand with Cuba, our friend

The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…

Criticism of Rand Water’s Zanzibar investment is misguided

AfriForum cannot, on one hand, criticise state-owned entities for their perpetual reliance on bailouts and on the other hand, also criticise them when they engage in secondary…

Loophole: Property transactions are vulnerable to scams because they involve large sums of money, multiple parties and documents that rely heavily on manual verification. Photo: Pexels

Homes are being stolen in plain sight

From forged documents to double sales, property fraud is a growing concern in South Africa. Even registered homes aren’t always safe

Pseudocracy: American exceptionalism continues to present as intact, despite actions such as bombing Iran and eviscerating Venezuela. Is America’s blatant lying today, in a sense, the boldest form of truth-telling? Photo: Trump Facebook page

The creative power of lies

America’s scale of its invented narratives are hard to match. Trump has normalised the idea that rhetorical bombast matters more than accuracy

Well-organised ecosystems: Typical red flags include pressure to act urgently, official-looking emails with errors in the address, website links with misspellings, requests for PINs for unexpected payments and crypto schemes promising fast profits.

Beating rampant cybercrime in Africa

Most cyberattacks succeed because they exploit human behaviour rather than technical weaknesses. Consumers are the frontline of defence against cybercrime

Domineering: President Donald Trump has called allies to contribute to the US-Israeli campaign but he later dismissed the need for a coalition altogether.

Solitary superpower erodes global unity

The message is unmistakable: allies must contribute to the US-Israeli campaign against Iran or face consequences for the partnership itself. Yet, as the conflict enters its…

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…

Immersive experience part of Nyakallo Maleka’s To Teach in Ways
That Teach Us to Take Care of the Soul exhibition at NAF 2025.

What kind of art world is South Africa moving into?

A sober look at how South African art is recalibrating for the long term — smaller, slower and more precarious, yet still thinking its way forward

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SA responds to US Secretary of State Rubio

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola rejected Washington’s criticism of South Africa’s G20 presidency and its decision to exclude Pretoria from G20 meetings

The 15th plan’s leap: China’s strategy for a balanced, modern future

In an era when the global economy staggers under the weight of inflation, trade wars, and geopolitical fractures, China’s Communist Party has just unveiled a roadmap that feels…

Kenyan President President William Ruto. (Wikimedia Commons)

Ruto’s cybercrime law is foolish political war against the digital generation

It criminalises dissent, targeting Kenya’s youth, but history shows suppression fuels defiance

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Mzansi Unicorns: Hope is our biggest export: With Lebo Rasethaba – Podcast episode 6

Mzansi Unicorns is a podcast spotlighting exceptional South Africans making a global impact across culture, business, sport, and social change.

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Mzansi Unicorns: Leveraging technology and AI to solve BIG problems: Melvyn Lubega – Podcast episode 5

Mzansi Unicorns is a podcast spotlighting exceptional South Africans making a global impact across culture, business, sport, and social change.

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Mzansi Unicorns: Innocentia Motau – Your Network is Your Net Worth – Podcast episode 4

Mzansi Unicorns is a podcast spotlighting exceptional South Africans making a global impact across culture, business, sport, and social change.