“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie” – Yevgeny Yevtushencko Strange times these. A proposed non-electoral pact between the ANC, a party synonymous with the advent of South African democracy, and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a party slavishly devoted to naked populism, would see them collaborating to evade electoral accountability […]
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The system in South Africa has its knee on the neck of the youth
The youth of today can learn from the youth of 1976, who rose up and rejected the Bantu education system
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The DA’s silent march towards self-determination in the Western Cape
An independence advocacy group believes that a growing number of the party’s MPs and leaders in the province support autonomy or secession
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A pandemonium of Nzimande’s making
The higher education sector should be the most innovative in a crisis, but the minister failed dismally
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Getting to the heart of the South African lockdown debate
What is it that has created divisions over when the Covid-19 restrictions should be eased?
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Is Angie Motshekga reducing teachers’ and learners’ lives to nothing?
If the DBE cannot assure children that their lives will not be compromised, how do you expect effective teaching and learning to happen? Have effective teaching and learning ever triumphed where fear reigned?
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Africa must lead the way out of the pandemic
The continent, which has survived crushing ordeals brought by colonialism and capitalism, has built up experience in dealing with viral outbreaks such as Ebola
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It’s a con-spiracy
Jewish people around the world must, for the first time in the face of a global crisis, be smiling. For once they are not to blame and not even the nuttiest conspiracy theorist can draw a pretty little line between the Jews, China, bats and a global pandemic. But then, nutty doesn’t even begin to […]
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Coronovirus, meaningless numbers, disaster capitalism: Oligarchy’s dream come true
Some corporates, some philanthropists, and some governments, the United States in particular, have a vested interest in a global pandemic — and the stats of infection rates and deaths are useful to them.
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The power of words to show how South Africa is fighting Covid-19
News headlines point to the ‘facts’ that citizens feel in charge of the virus
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Comfortably numbers: Reflections on Covid-19 data
Is the coronavirus mortality rate, fallible as it is, even the number we should be focusing on right now?
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Easing the lockdown like clockwork
As we move into coronavirus lockdown level four, a scene from A Clockwork Orange illustrates the eerie limbo we inhabit