BUSINESS REFLECTION Crossed Wires: China and the US — incompatible views of a technology-led future 4 min 0 By Steven Boykey Sidley
SHARED VALUES In a world losing its moral bearings let kindness be our answer to this moment 4 min 3 By Mark Tomlinson
DUMPING CRISIS Kya Sands burning wasteland has residents living downwind of neglect after a decade of regulatory failure 5 min 1 By Keith Elliott
CHILDREN IN CRISIS Inside the paedophile’s playbook — understanding grooming to keep children safer 9 min 0 By Robyn Wolfson Vorster
ISS TODAY Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet repression 5 min 0 By Julia Baum and Michelle van Rooyen
GEOPOLITICAL SHIFTS OP-ED G20: South Africa’s host dilemma amid signals of US hegemony’s decline 6 min 8 By Pali Lehohla
ECONOMIES OF SCALE OP-ED Lessons in competitiveness and disruption for SA from five global capitals 6 min 0 By Lyal White
GEOPOLITICS OP-ED 2025: A year of deepening the UK-SA Growth Partnership 4 min 0 By Antony Phillipson
Solly Malatsi Navigating BBBEE — the role of equity equivalent investment programmes in digital growth 4 min 4 16 December 2025
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED The Empire state of mind — Africa has seen this movie before 5 min 3 By Phillip van Niekerk
HUMAN RIGHTS Western ‘family values’ rhetoric undermines ubuntu and reproductive justice for all in Africa 6 min 1 By Sesona Buyeye and Duduetsang Mmeti
ENERGY TRANSITION OP-ED Eskom awards contract to develop a virtual wheeling platform amid regulatory tension 7 min 0 By Chris Yelland
LETTER FROM PENNSYLVANIA How a Pennsylvania rock shelter upended archaeology and changed our understanding of the first Americans 8 min 0 By Glen Retief
LIQUOR POLICY OP-ED To stop killings at taverns, South Africa needs a national solution 4 min 0 By Maurice Smithers
ONLINE ABUSE OP-ED Nordic envoys unite against gender-based violence in the digital era 3 min 0 By Anna Karin Eneström, Pekka Metso, Karin Poulsen and Gjermund Sæther
DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL Towards an inclusive electoral system that reclaims accountability without reproducing apartheid lines 6 min 0 By Nicola Bergsteedt
ISS TODAY After a decade of delays, it’s time to put the Office of Public Integrity into action 4 min 0 By Colette Ashton
DIGITAL DISINFORMATION OP-ED Viral lies, real consequences — the price of Facebook’s inaction 5 min 0 By Kirsten Pearson
ISS TODAY A triumph on paper, a battle ahead as SA’s Africa-driven G20 faces US pushback 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius for ISS TODAY