STATE ACCOUNTABILITY Xenophobic tensions in SA point to governance failures, not an inevitable social crisis 4 min 0 By Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh and Sanjna Jain
#EconomicJusticeMatters SA’s food crisis demands a new strategy — and the roadmap already exists 6 min 0 By Andrew Bennie and Yondela Mahlati
THE LOWLY NEWSPAPERMAN Many lessons for Cyril Ramaphosa in Keir Starmer’s ignominious defeat 5 min 0 By Mondli Makhanya
REPORTERS SILENCED OP-ED Protection orders are being repurposed as gag orders across SA 6 min 0 By Nkanyiso Ngqulunga and Ella Morrison
TREATMENT BREAKTHROUGH The long shot: Building behavioural science into HIV prevention 6 min 0 By Lucy Wagner, John Joska, Amelia Stanton, Devisi Ashar and Stephan Rabie
GREEN GROWTH Why biodiversity is becoming a core economic and investment issue 4 min 0 By Ntakadzeni Tshidada
SCIENCE AND COMPASSION OP-ED The algorithm will see you now: Why AI is the nail in the coffin for animal medical testing 5 min 0 By Catherine Botha
POPULIST THREAT OP-ED In the shadow of the Rainbow Nation: Xenophobia and SA’s reckoning with pan-Africanism 7 min 2 By Mandira Bagwandeen and Aaliyah Vayez
THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE Eswatini’s civic freedoms on trial in landmark LGBTI rights legal battle 4 min 0 By Khanyo Farisè
Rare earth SA’s Succulent Karoo and other exceptional landscapes deserve our duty of care 6 min 0 By Lara Wallis
DYING DAYS SA can't offer dying patients palliative care, but it can offer them death 4 min 5 By Andrea Mendelsohn
THE LOWLY NEWSPAPERMAN The DA must move beyond its myopic views and change trajectory 5 min 17 By Mondli Makhanya
HARD LESSONS OP-ED Despite the gains since 1976, the struggle for young South Africans has evolved rather than ended 4 min 1 By Teri Brown and Faatima Laher
Encoded Bias The hidden bias in AI narratives that gives men futures and women feelings 5 min 0 By Sioux McKenna and Nompilo Tshuma
GEOPOLITICAL REALIGNMENT Africa in the shadow of a US-Africa relations reset 5 min 1 By Sarah Setlaelo
HOSTS OF HATE OP-ED Does anti-foreigner hatred pay? Do digital platforms profit? 5 min 0 By Nicole Fritz and Kavisha Pillay
SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY The real food safety crisis is not science but failure to coordinate across institutions 6 min 0 By Ravi Pillay
HUMAN RIGHTS SHAME Zimbabwean mother’s deadly ordeal highlights migrant healthcare crisis after SA hospital demands upfront payment 7 min 5 By Faizel Cook
RESTORATION Thabo Mbeki tribute concert restores Tiyo Soga to the African Renaissance 5 min 0 By Lukhanyo Neer
Asking for trouble A crisis without evidence? Reading Ramaphosa’s migration speech critically 5 min 0 By Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia
Finding the truth When misinformation becomes a weapon — Afrophobia, social media and 30 June 6 min 0 By Gudani Tshikota and William Bird
