The possibility of a serial killer operating in Ekurhuleni remains unproven, but eight dead women have created a fear that cannot be dismissed as social-media hysteria. Until investigators…
Manifestos are sold as blueprints for better municipalities, but too often they are little more than packaged political fantasies. The promises are extravagant, the language reassuring…
Football teams are judged by results, performances and the quality of the game they produce. SAFA appears to have developed a different scoring system, one in which thirteen years of…
The Water and Sanitation portfolio already has enough problems without its minister adding verbal pollution to the national infrastructure crisis. Pemmy Majodina’s angry exchange with a…
From sewage-filled parks and broken services to pension queues and citizens without identity documents, South Africa offers opposition parties endless opportunities to prove their…
The anniversary of Steve Biko’s death brings familiar speeches and wreaths. This time, Sandile Memela imagines something different: Biko sitting across from Thabo Mbeki and demanding…
Soweto is not a backdrop for national triumphs, a marketing slogan or a convenient address for a stadium in Nasrec. It is a living community whose sporting infrastructure remains…
Gratitude has curdled into obedience, and old sacrifices are being used as a shield against present-day scrutiny. The struggle deserves reverence. The failed leaders hiding behind it…
Aged whisky develops depth through time, craftsmanship and patience; great jazz acquires soul through discipline and mastery. Politics has discovered an easier formula: manufacture…
He started seeing things that had no business being there and hearing voices when nobody was speaking. At first, he blamed the alcohol. Then he realised the frightening things did not…
Mbatha woke up inside a casket and still went out looking for another drink. Between 2022 and 2023, his addiction helped destroy 13 businesses and plunged hundreds of families into…
When a man speaks about abuse, the conversation too often turns elsewhere: to women, statistics or what other men have done. His pain becomes something requiring explanation, comparison…
At Germiston’s forensic pathology service, grieving families are allegedly being asked for money to speed up post-mortem examinations that should cost them nothing. It is difficult to…
Jackie Phamotse’s The Big 5 Cartel holds up an unforgiving mirror to South Africa, where crime, corruption and power increasingly occupy the same rooms. Drawing from experiences that began…
An awaiting-trial prisoner has the right to dignity, private clothing and the presumption of innocence. But when designer suits, expensive watches, political handshakes and cheering…
The government approved Phetedi Primary School in 2023, but the classrooms never followed. As Magagamatala waits, the BPSA is demanding answers about infrastructure delays, scholar…
The bottle can become a dangerous hiding place when its presence is explained through amadlozi. For izinyanga and izangoma, the consequences reach beyond drunkenness, touching dignity…
There are bad years, and then there is Julius Mkhwanazi’s year, an extraordinary procession of commissions, allegations, arrests and court appearances in which the only dependable source…
A municipal park should offer children safety, exercise, and community. In Saulsville, it offers sewage, rubbish, vandalised equipment, and a brutal lesson in what institutional neglect…
Salif Keita has closed the door on South Africa over what he sees as xenophobic violence. But before judging a country he once stood beside, Sandile Memela says he should listen to…
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