HERITAGE & IDENTITY OP-ED Voices of Knoflokskraal — belonging and everyday survival on contested land 6 min 0 By Rafael Verbuyst, William Ellis and Ilse Eigelaar-Meets
CRACKS IN THE EDIFICE The night the Maga fever broke and the moral arc bent back towards justice 8 min 1 By Phillip van Niekerk
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026 Fourteen days to find a mayor — Mashaba holds the key, ANC the lock 6 min 3 By Sam Mkokeli
STATES OF GOVERNANCE OP-ED Can SA’s Public Service Amendment Act deliver better governance in Joburg’s Deep South? 15 min 0 By Shirley Govender
POWER RISKS The fragile assumptions behind South Africa’s optimistic electricity outlook 7 min 2 By Chris Yelland
PROJECT COAST Peace-driven science rises from the ashes of apartheid-era bioterrorism 6 min 0 By Wilmot James, Brendan Beng and Andrea Uhlig
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OP-ED Forget future existential threats — AI is automating gendered violence and misogyny right now 4 min 0 By Janine Deselaers and Janet Heard
AFFORDABLE HOUSING OP-ED CT’s Tafelberg social housing units cut by Heritage assessment 7 min 1 By Zacharia Mashele, Buhle Booi and Zamindlela Mkhwanazi
PEDDLING LIES Let no facts stand in the way of fearmongers’ selfish ambitions 6 min 0 By Njabulo Mnyandu
CHAR GPT Go out and vote to fix what’s crumbling, bumbling, toiling, troubling 5 min 1 By Charmain Naidoo
DIGITAL MENACE OP-ED Misinformation, disinformation and the threat to electoral integrity 6 min 1 By Gudani Tshikota and William Bird
GEOPOLITICS OP-ED Brazil’s election — a victory for Lula, a wake-up call for democracy 5 min 0 By Lyal White
GOVERNANCE FIASCO OP-ED Bronkhorstspruit gastro outbreak: A failure to keep people safe 6 min 2 By The Independent Science Reference Group
POWER POLITICS OP-ED Eleven years, thousands of megawatts, zero delivery — SA’s gas-to-power procurement failure 6 min 0 By Chris Yelland
OP-ED Why SA must invest in young people’s mental health sooner rather than later 3 min 0 By Crick Lund, Simone Peinke and Anya Hollands
PROMISED LAND Title deeds may be key to unlocking SA agriculture’s full potential 4 min 2 By Wandile Sihlobo
ACCOUNTABILITY DIVIDE OP-ED SA and Kazakhstan reveal sharply contrasting paths to biological weapons dismantlement 5 min 0 By Andrea Uhlig, Wilmot James and Brendan Beng
DIGITAL POLITICS OP-ED Borders, ballots, court clashes — how the anti-immigrant movement is setting SA’s elections agenda 7 min 0 By Aldu Cornelissen and Kyle Findlay
THE BALLOT BOX OP-ED AI cannot predict SA’s 2026 elections outcome, but it may influence November 4 polls 6 min 0 By Aldu Cornelissen and Kyle Findlay
WARNING SIGNS OP-ED From Malmesbury to Umhlali, SA has now seen both faces of nihilistic violent extremism 6 min 0 By Isel van Zyl and Amiee Taylor
