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Life support: KZN education gets a R2bn fix that won't stop the bleeding
FINANCIAL CRISIS

Life support: KZN education gets a R2bn fix that won't stop the bleeding

An emergency R2bn advance brings temporary relief, but fails to fix deep financial issues caused by cumulative budget cuts and poor management. As cash-strapped schools face a brutal struggle to survive on the ground, threats of a Section 100 national takeover continue to loom.

By Takudzwa Pongweni
REGULATORY REFORM

Breaking the compliance deadlock holding back early learning centres in Cape Town

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
Breaking the compliance deadlock holding back early learning centres in Cape Town
IDENTITY CRISIS

Late registration of birth applicants fight for documents 10 months after fire destroyed records

By Tamsin Metelerkamp and Daniélle Schaafsma
Late registration of birth applicants fight for documents 10 months after fire destroyed records
LEARNING CURVE

How a classroom programme is tackling maths gaps and youth unemployment in SA

By Takudzwa Pongweni
How a classroom programme is tackling maths gaps and youth unemployment in SA
CARTOON

World Cup goals

By 2Lani and UBUNTOONS
World Cup goals
Meet the Nigerian oncologist helping to fight cancer in KZN and across Africa
SPOTLIGHT

Meet the Nigerian oncologist helping to fight cancer in KZN and across Africa

By Biénne Huisman
Have a heart for those fellow Africans now desperately fleeing our country
OPINIONISTA

Have a heart for those fellow Africans now desperately fleeing our country

By Mark Heywood
Proposed school history syllabus focuses on Africa as the main story, not a sidebar to Western history
PERSPECTIVES REVISITED

Proposed school history syllabus focuses on Africa as the main story, not a sidebar to Western history

By Sarah Godsell, Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Paul Maluleka, Bongani Shabangu and Johan Wasserman
Water crisis: floods, drought, and a pricier basket of food
FOOD BASKET

Water crisis: floods, drought, and a pricier basket of food

By Lillian Roberts
Why storms that used to happen every 50 years are hitting more often
Bhekisisa

Why storms that used to happen every 50 years are hitting more often

By Linda Pretorius and Karen Harkema
After three years without a national food plan, civil society demands answers
Policy Paralysis

After three years without a national food plan, civil society demands answers

By Daniélle Schaafsma
Grounded: how broken roads and broken promises keep Xhora Mouth waiting for ambulances
HEALTHCARE

Grounded: how broken roads and broken promises keep Xhora Mouth waiting for ambulances

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
SPOTLIGHT

Unpacking the HIV jab that could dramatically reduce new infections

By Marcus Low and Elri Voigt for Spotlight
Unpacking the HIV jab that could dramatically reduce new infections
Maverick Citizen

LISTEN: Season 3 of Maverick Citizen podcast ‘What’s Eating Us?’

By Lillian Roberts
LISTEN: Season 3 of Maverick Citizen podcast ‘What’s Eating Us?’
SPOTLIGHT

Why pharmacists still can’t prescribe ARVs, months after court gave the green light

By Catherine Tomlinson for Spotlight
Why pharmacists still can’t prescribe ARVs, months after court gave the green light
THE CONVERSATION

Ebola may have spread beyond Africa — here’s how health authorities are responding

By Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Holly Seale and Saiful Islam
IDENTITY CRISIS

The Eastern Cape foundation helping the forgotten get their identity papers and their humanity

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
SUPPORT VACUUM

Nine thousand social workers are unemployed, and a million learners are in crisis

By Takudzwa Pongweni
Regulatory Failure

Weak enforcement drives mercury use among Zimbabwe’s artisanal miners

By Tatenda Chitagu
Five claims by March and March’s leader — and what the evidence actually shows
GROUNDUP

Five claims by March and March’s leader — and what the evidence actually shows

‘We’re not xenophobic, but…’ Last week, the movement’s founder made several misleading and divisive claims. We debunk them here.

By Daniel Steyn
CHILD PROTECTION WEEK

Soul Buddyz turns kids into social change agents and SA’s next generation of young leaders

By Daniélle Schaafsma
CHILD PROTECTION WEEK

Free to Grow: How parenting initiative helps to break cycles of abuse at home

By Siyabonga Goni
CARTOON

Locked in, trapped out

By Nathi and UBUNTOONS
‘WAR ON HUNGER’

Food security plans under scrutiny as Gauteng struggles with widespread hunger

By Lillian Roberts
Emiliano Sandri: The La Perla founder who brought Mediterranean sophistication to Cape Town
OBITUARY

Emiliano Sandri: The La Perla founder who brought Mediterranean sophistication to Cape Town

By Herman Lategan
SA’s double defeat — smoking up, vaping left unchecked
POLICY GAP

SA’s double defeat — smoking up, vaping left unchecked

By Sam Filby and Corné van Walbeek
The evolution of HIV treatment: From multi-pill regimens to better, single-pill combos
SPOTLIGHT

The evolution of HIV treatment: From multi-pill regimens to better, single-pill combos

By Elri Voigt
Born here, invisible here: the stateless children Home Affairs refuses to count
LIFE IN LIMBO

Born here, invisible here: the stateless children Home Affairs refuses to count

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
Beyond infrastructure: Training the biosecurity leaders Africa needs
OUTBREAK READINESS OP-ED

Beyond infrastructure: Training the biosecurity leaders Africa needs

By Wilmot James, Beth Cameron and Oluwatosin Akande

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