EDITORIAL: Why Moseneke was wrong about postponing the election
Democracy has many ingredients and requires many safeguards, but the greatest of these is the vote
EDITORIAL: Only voters can change broken cities
What local government really needs is a tough new breed of political and administrative managers capable of making unpopular decisions, such as freezing ...
EDITORIAL: Back from the abyss – again
The visceral fear in July 2021 has seemed similarly intense to that of April 1993 – but objectively viewed, we were in a very different and more dangerous ...
EDITORIAL: When speed matters, Cele and others dither
Rather than arresting criminals for the looting, and reassuring business owners that they’ll be protected, our political leaders are prevaricating, at a time ...
EDITORIAL: Nkandla’s outlaw family
If anything justifies a prison sentence in the Zuma family right now, it is the rabid incitement to violence that the former president’s daughter Duduzile ...
EDITORIAL: In the face of anarchy, Ramaphosa falls short
Will the military hammer be able to pound the cork back into the bottle, now that the protests have outgrown Zuma, Ramaphosa or political agendas?
EDITORIAL: The problem is ANC impunity — not Zuma
If there was one message that was constantly reinforced this week, it is that those in power are more equal than everyone else
EDITORIAL: Higher pay, low value for South Africans
There’s little to cheer about in the fact that the state has failed to hold the line on public sector wage increases
EDITORIAL: SAPS socked by EFF
Last week’s EFF march defines the police force’s inadequacies: insecure in its ability to protect the public, incapable of keeping control, and susceptible to ...
EDITORIAL: How the ANC broke SA’s small towns
It’s a decline that is grotesquely tabulated in the auditor-general’s latest report
EDITORIAL: Dose of reality needed on SAA
While there are legitimate questions to be asked, only the economically ignorant would see a R300bn asset in SAA, considering that all it has done is suck the ...
EDITORIAL: Politicians fiddle as Gauteng burns
As hard as our doctors try to fight the blaze, the province’s politicians continue to hobble them
EDITORIAL: Ingonyama Trust ruling a rural rights victory
If the government is to atone for its failure in the face of the Ingonyama Trust's illegal leasing of trust land, it should ensure that the Pietermaritzburg ...
EDITORIAL: Scalded before, dare we hope this time?
Could the privatisation of SAA and the increased generation cap for power production be the kind of growth-inducing game-changers the country has been craving?
EDITORIAL: An SABC role model?
The SABC — whose gutting by successive executive teams culminated in the surreal reign of former radio producer Hlaudi Motsoeneng — has notched up its first ...
EDITORIAL: The myth of SA’s ‘poor MPs’
The fact is, MPs’ salaries are many multiples of the average salary in SA
EDITORIAL: Did Zweli Mkhize lie?
Mkhize will surely know that in politics it’s often the cover-up, not the crime, that proves fatal
EDITORIAL: De Ruyter’s hand freed to root out those R26 toilet rolls at Eskom
Eskom’s procurement department, which was headed by Tshitangano, was a train wreck of profligacy
EDITORIAL: Markus Jooste on the spot
It may be two years late, but it’s still a victory for accountability that the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants has slapped former Steinhoff CEO Markus ...
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