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 5 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
EDUCATION OP-ED We must prioritise early childhood development to address South Africa’s inequality emergency 3 min 0 By Zaheera Mohamed and David Harrison
POLITICAL VIOLENCE OP-ED The hidden war on women in politics across SA and the rest of Africa 4 min 1 By Amanda Gouws
MADIBA’S LEGACY OP-ED Mandela’s inclusive and unthreatening manner integral to SA’s negotiated settlement (Part 5) 6 min 0 By Raymond Suttner
STATE INTELLIGENCE OP-ED We need to stop the spies abusing Silicon Valley’s runaway AI in the name of national security 8 min 0 By Jane Duncan
