Opinion and Analysis

Draft bill will not solve police brutality

Killing of “mentally unstable” Tshepiso Adoons highlights failings

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Analysis | 7 October 2020

Asset managers need to check excessive executive pay

Executive remuneration in South Africa is untethered to any objective measure of fairness

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Opinion | 28 September 2020

Spatial injustice remains at core of rising inequality

Activists believe a radical “new normal” is needed for land reform

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Opinion | 10 September 2020

Violence in prisons is increasing. The prisons watchdog needs more power to stop it

A Constitutional Court decision, awaited since March, will be crucial for the safety of inmates and wardens

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Opinion | 3 September 2020

Cape Town’s approach to homeless people is cruel and expensive

It would have been more affordable to offer people decent accommodation than the Strandfontein camp

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Opinion | 1 September 2020

Enemies of the nation: How the “war on drugs” has failed South Africa

Drug use is a social and health issue. It is not a criminal justice issue

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Opinion | 19 August 2020

How well has South Africa done at reducing Covid deaths?

The answer may surprise you

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Analysis | 18 August 2020

Government has used lockdown to decide who may protest

Uneven enforcement of restrictions on gatherings leaves protesters confused

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Opinion | 17 August 2020

How government is supporting captive lion breeding

Panel overseeing hunting is loaded with industry representatives

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Opinion | 12 August 2020

Education spending is falling. The Covid-19 budget has slashed it further

Yet schools are essential to the Covid-19 response

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Opinion | 31 July 2020

We won’t fix development until we fix our municipalities

Citizens have been reduced to passive beneficiaries of state assistance which often never arrives

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Opinion | 30 July 2020

How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations

Here are seven proposals

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Opinion | 27 July 2020

Parliament failed to vet Cele’s nomination for IPID head

Does Jennifer Ntlatseng have what it takes to run the police watchdog?

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Analysis | 21 July 2020

Housing crisis more complex than it seems

What the eviction of a naked man tells us about our collective response to the housing shortage

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Opinion | 6 July 2020

Who is responsible for government’s failure to deliver?

Food and social grant commitments have fallen woefully short

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Analysis | 3 July 2020

How we count our dead during Covid-19

From 6 May to 23 June, at least 4,000 South Africans died because of the pandemic

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Analysis | 2 July 2020