Editorials

The Democratic Alliance, in its explanation of Mmusi Maimane’s photo-op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, says its...

Last week, we published a front-page story that did not mention the words ANC, Zuma or Gupta. Instead, it showed the prospect of an apartheid-era...

The sporadic and phlegmatic attempts by the government to look into compensation for the gains of corporate South Africa during apartheid have thus...

The department of basic education’s intention to begin giving school principals competency tests as a condition of their employment is laudable...

Perhaps it is because there have been so many of them that the thought of the ANC’s annual January 8 statement barely raises more than a pained...

Last week we confessed our bewilderment at all the vicious lawfare going on – if it’s not in the Constitutional Court, it’s in one of the...

There is a particular injustice in watching young men dancing in the afternoon traffic in the hope that someone will be sufficiently entertained to...

Exactly one year ago, on December 9 2015, we had just one question: Who the hell was David Douglas Des van Rooyen?

It was always unfair to expect Trevor Noah to replicate John Stewart’s success on The Daily Show immediately. For one, Stewart had years...

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies takes the South African Human Rights Commission to court over a report it says was tampered with in order...

We have been waiting for the real ANC to emerge from beneath the morass of President Jacob Zuma’s various controversies for some time. The argument...

American writer Naomi Klein describes the “Shock Doctrine” as the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while...

There is a certain satisfaction in seeing the Australian cricket team crumble under the weight of a South African attack. It is especially gratifying...

It does not matter that the Democratic Alliance’s motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma

The world of nonbigoted humanity, horrified as it is at the triumph of Donald Trump and his ugly populism in the United States elections, should...