OPEN LETTER Sakhela Buhlungu has shown incredible courage in tackling corruption at Fort Hare 3 min 1 By Saleem Badat, Barney Pityana, Jonathan Jansen, Malegapuru Makgoba, Brian Figaji, Yunus Ballim, Tyrone Pretorius, Wim de Villiers and Max Price
HUNGER CRISIS Access to food a matter of justice, ‘not just kindness’ — Prof Thuli Madonsela 5 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Daily Maverick Readers Speak – Gift of the Givers’ Imtiaz Sooliman for President 6 min 4 By Ferial Haffajee, Sahra Heuwel and Janet Heard
TRIBUTE Chabani Manganyi — a reflective journey through apartheid, scholarship, and the human spirit 5 min 0 By Tinyiko Maluleke
TROUBLED RENEWAL OP-ED University transformation should build unity, collegiality and trust — not create angry victims 7 min 1 By Robert Morrell
BLUEPRINT FOR RECOVERY 2024 Part 3: ‘There is no education system that can be better than the quality of its teachers’ 10 min 2 By John Matisonn
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR If I were an alien that landed on Earth, I’d douse SA in a potent serum to combat empathy and humour deficiency 5 min 16 By Heather Robertson
SAD[BUT]TU OP-ED Pirls disgrace — Cadre deployment and Sadtu’s control over education must end 5 min 1 By Stefan Schirmer and Rehan Visser
AI POTENTIAL OP-ED A prime time to prompt — how the lingua franca of artificial intelligence could speak to Africa’s future 5 min 2 By Clinton Rautenbach and Kevin Durrheim
ANALYSIS Invoking apartheid while protesting is the ultimate sign of desperation — and a warning 4 min 9 By Stephen Grootes
DAILY MAVERICK WEBINAR ‘The vultures are out’ — Prof Jonathan Jansen highlights corruption and looting at SA universities 3 min 2 By Victoria O’Regan
BOOK EXTRACT ‘Corrupted’ – a study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities 7 min 1 By Jonathan D Jansen
2030 READING PANEL FINDINGS Still no national plan to address SA’s reading crisis as percentage of children who can read for meaning declines 5 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
ANALYSIS From the ANC down, our entire political system is in an existential mess 5 min 5 By Stephen Grootes
PHALA PHALA OP-ED Badly drafted report makes it easier for ANC MPs to vote against Ramaphosa impeachment panel 6 min 4 By Pierre de Vos
KHAMPEPE REPORT Racist incidents at Stellenbosch University a ‘pushback’ against change, says Prof Jonathan Jansen 4 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
INVESTIGATION Dark days: Accusations of capture and governance instability rock UCT 14 min 51 By Rebecca Davis
SA’S POST-2024 ORDER OP-ED (PART THREE) Fixing SA will be a mammoth task, but it can be done with the right people in a new coalition 8 min 16 By John Matisonn
BOOK REVIEW A book for uncertain times: James Leatt’s ‘Conjectures: Living with questions’ 2 min 0 By Jonathan D Jansen
CAMPUS STRIFE ANALYSIS Explainer: The university debt and students’ protest trap 6 min 5 By Unknown Author
Campus Strife: Flash Analysis Wits: 27,000 out of 37,500 students need some form of financial aid in 2021 2 min 5 By Ferial Haffajee
