Artists do not expect government to manage their lives or guarantee their success. They do, however, expect contracts, royalties, institutions, funding systems and laws to work. Sello…
Telling artists to take responsibility for themselves is reasonable, but responsibility becomes an empty prescription when the nature of creative work makes conventional security difficult…
Sandile Memela argues that artists must abandon the idea that their cultural contribution places them above other citizens, insisting that bricklayers, nurses, teachers and farmworkers…
I knew the drinking had become a problem, but I had no real understanding of what was happening inside my body until illness, fear and a doctor’s blunt words forced me to confront it.
Enemies do not always create the weaknesses they exploit. Sometimes they find the door already open, the alarm switched off, and the house neglected. The ANC’s enduring problem is not the…
Years after the cash-in-the-couch scandal erupted, the questions remain stubbornly unanswered, as court battles, parliamentary objections, and procedural hurdles continue to keep the…
We talk endlessly about the damage alcohol can cause, but far less about what sits beneath the drinking: loneliness, grief, pressure, shame and pain. Sometimes the person holding the glass…
After four people were killed in Reiger Park, the call was for communities to reclaim their streets. But communities cannot be expected to bear responsibility for public safety without…
The crisis engulfing Jozi FM is greater than a quarrel between competing factions. It raises serious questions about accountability, public trust, and the stewardship of community…
Reforming Eskom is unavoidable. But reform and dismantling are not the same thing. Once electricity becomes increasingly governed by competing commercial interests, accountability becomes…
A coalition can survive disagreements around a Cabinet table. It cannot indefinitely survive the loss of confidence outside it. The GNU began with unusually high expectations and…
There was a time when these schools were filled with children whose dreams seemed to have no limits. Then the children began leaving for schools elsewhere. What followed was a slow…
South Africa does not lack laws, institutions or mechanisms to rescue failing municipalities. What it lacks is the political will to use them consistently. Replacing basic, yet critical…
The future is a marvellous place. It has autonomous transport, digital ecosystems and seamless connectivity. The present, unfortunately, has unfinished fencing, bureaucratic poetry and…
The spaza shop is a symbol of resilience, entrepreneurship, and survival. But elevating it into the centrepiece of economic transformation risks confusing relief with reform. A nation…
Women's Month is a time of celebration, but should it also be a time for introspection? Jabu Kumalo argues that true equality requires honest self-examination, urging women to confront…
SADC was founded on the promise of regional solidarity and shared prosperity. Decades later, its annual summits increasingly resemble carefully choreographed exercises in political…
Government cannot simultaneously portray private security as too dangerous to trust while relying on the same industry when the state falls short. Public safety demands more than political…
The freight rail crisis has exposed Transnet's profound failures, but it has also exposed something else: an eagerness to treat privatisation as the ultimate solution. Selling control of…
Part think tank, part ideological movement, Vuka Azania seeks to reignite debates many believed had faded with Black Consciousness. Sandile Memela argues that its emergence challenges…
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