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
INVESTMENT INSIGHTS Connecting the future — unlocking SA’s R1-trillion infrastructure ambition with private capital 3 min 0 By Tshiphiri Muedi and Thanzi Ramukosi
SCIENTIFIC RIGOUR Draining the truth — why Cape Town’s ‘groundwater crisis’ is highly exaggerated 8 min 1 By Roger Parsons
SPACE ENGINEERING The Artemis imperative — SA must look heavenward to alleviate its engineering skills crisis 5 min 0 By Dillon Birns, Willem Jordaan and Arno Barnard
ECONOMIC GROWTH OP-ED Foreign direct investment — not just capital — is the game-changer SA urgently needs 5 min 0 By Martyn Davies and Yuwa Hedrick-Wong
