COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS OP-ED SA may be stable, but food, transport and electricity prices still hit households hard 5 min 0 By Alex Malapane, Shamila Singh and Sele Yalaghuli
CLIMATE COSTS African children bear the brunt of a crisis they did not create 5 min 0 By Mark Tomlinson and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
SOCIALIST REVOLUTION OP-ED Considerations for making the SACP electorally significant 10 min 2 By Brian Ashley and Jeff Rudin
THE EXCLUDED CHILD OP-ED When boys are left behind: Creating safe pathways for healing, belonging and protection 4 min 0 By Aluta Sneke and C Anzio Jacobs
EDUCATION CRISIS Beyond the bombs — humanitarian catastrophe leaves a generation of Gaza schoolchildren in limbo 4 min 0 By Mark Potterton
GETTING SA TO WORK There were 656,000 matric passes in 2025 — but where are the jobs? 7 min 0 By Deon Snyman
SCENARIOS 2035 OP-ED From Homeless to Paradise Road — mapping the future of Gauteng’s local governance 5 min 0 By Thembani Mkhize, Rashid Seedat and Shannon Whitaker
PASS THE BILL OP-ED Cabinet approves ECD Children’s Amendment Bill — Parliament must carry over the line 5 min 0 By Daniel Peter Al-Naddaf, Hopolang Selebalo, Kayin Scholtz, Stanford Ndlovu, Tatiana Kazim, Tess Peacock and Tshepo Mantjé
DUAL ECONOMY SA’s agriculture is growing, but is it working for everyone? 4 min 0 By Tinashe Kapuya and Wandile Sihlobo
POLITRIX OP-ED Young ‘Black Twitter’ wants Oom Piet for president? Not so fast 6 min 0 By Yossabel Chetty
LETTER TO THE EDITOR When good writing becomes bad ethics — the voyeuristic gaze in sex work reporting 6 min 0 By Rebecca Walker, Marlise Richter and Connie Mathe
Parliament’s smoking gun OP-ED Why new evidence demands immediate action on firearm oversight 5 min 3 By Stanley Maphosa and Minenhle Mdiniso
PROTECTED DISCLOSURES OP-ED Civil society welcomes draft whistleblower Bill, but warns that serious risks remain 5 min 0 By Claire Rankin, Luthando Vilakazi and Roshnee Narrandes
BUSINESS REFLECTION Crossed Wires: What does the world’s greatest living mathematician think of AI? 5 min 0 By Steven Boykey Sidley
GROWTH TRAJECTORY OP-ED The state of SA’s economy, and what needs to be done to turn the corner 17 min 1 By Neil Coleman
SISYPHEAN TASK OP-ED Another day, another crisis courtesy of the City of Joburg 6 min 0 By David Fleminger
BHEKISISA Anti-HIV jab due in six weeks but funding cuts hollow out delivery system 7 min 0 By Mia Malan
ACCOUNTABILITY HACK OP-ED Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — powered by AI 5 min 1 By Nic Dawes
FOSSIL FUEL PHASE-OUT OP-ED Wait, could this be a climate conference that actually works? 4 min 1 By Mark Hertsgaard
UNLEARNING STYLES Debunking ‘zombie theories’: Learning myths persist despite science proving otherwise 5 min 1 By Mark Potterton