VISION SNAG OP-ED A 10-year driving licence makes sense, a 10-year eye test gap does not 5 min 0 By Carel Masemola, Haseena Majid and Nombuso Mathe
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026 OP-ED More coalitions are coming, with power and kingmaking the name of the game 11 min 0 By Susan Booysen
HUMAN RIGHTS OP-ED African states must refuse to be complicit in the US policy of ‘third-country removals’ 5 min 0 By Marceau Sivieude and Tigere Chagutah
ECO COLLAPSE OP-ED Climate cover-up leaves Europe burning as warnings are buried 4 min 0 By Mark Hertsgaard
CONTRACTS OF DEATH OP-ED How Africans were lured to fight for Russia and sent to Ukraine’s deadliest fronts 11 min 0 By Greg Mills
LANGUAGE, MIGRATION OP-ED Why linguistic profiling in an era of migration and tension makes no sense 6 min 0 By Vukani Chris Mhlanga and Simangele Dlamini
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Elephants do not respond to hashtags or opinion writers 4 min 0 By Jeanetta Selier and Sam Ferreira
STRATEGIC BLINDSPOT SA’s data centre boom exposes a dangerous digital governance paradox 6 min 2 By Wellington Muzengeza and Joan Swart
THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA How Cape Town can become a neutral global city in a multipolar world 8 min 0 By Martyn Davies and Yuwa Hedrick-Wong
AILING SYSTEM The world is cutting health budgets, women and children will pay the price 5 min 0 By Rajat Khosla, Kalipso Chalkidou and Patrick Ndzana Olomo
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION The 951 elephant deaths in Kruger — why the numbers demand perspective, not outrage 5 min 0 By Howard Hendricks and Sam Ferreira
LEGAL PROTECTION OP-ED Compensation and damages — whistleblowers are entitled to both in South Africa 6 min 0 By Ugljesa Radulovic and Johandri Wright
EDUCATION Stop feeding the maths monster by making kids think it’s too difficult 5 min 1 By Mark Potterton and Ingrid Sapire
DEPORTATION FALLOUT OP-ED The state counts buses filled, healthcare workers count the cost to migrants’ rights, health and dignity 5 min 0 By Rebecca Walker
LETTER TO MAHLAMBA NDLOPFU As MK and DA put the boot in, sanity has nowhere left to park 5 min 2 By Bhekisisa Mncube
EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES When teaching becomes preparation for everything except learning 4 min 0 By Andisiwe Hlungwane and Michael Sterksen
MIGRANT DIGNITY OP-ED Dear minister, what is the difference between you and Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma? 4 min 3 By Humanitarian observer
AFRICAN BETRAYAL OP-ED Amid its fresh anti-migrant convulsion, SA risks becoming a pariah state again 7 min 5 By Dele Olojede
STRONGER THAN FEAR OP-ED The day the buses left: Confronting xenophobia and rediscovering our humanity 7 min 0 By Deon Snyman
SHALE GAS OP-ED Why lifting the Karoo fracking moratorium is a risky move 5 min 0 By Jonty Cogger and Paul Wani Lado
TROUBLED KINGDOM From assassination target to refugee — the heavy price of defending Eswatini human rights 6 min 0 By Timothy Fish Hodgson and Kaajal-Ramjathan Keogh
