Opinion and Analysis

Incarcerated women tell NGO they are desperate for help

Conditions for women in prisons neglected during Women’s Month, says health and human rights organisation

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Opinion | 30 August 2019

King Zwelithini’s trust keeps people poor

Ingonyama Trust denies customary ownership rights to people living on its land

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Opinion | 29 August 2019

Women are being evicted from shelters onto the street

Victims of violence are rendered homeless or forced to return to abusive homes

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Opinion | 20 August 2019

EFF’s sinister sudden interest in PRASA

Party questions corruption investigation instead of corruption itself

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Analysis | 14 August 2019

No country for old spies

Take Jacob Zuma’s testimony for what it is – the rambling of a troubled mind

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Opinion | 17 July 2019

Farm workers, let down by politicians, face new threats to their security

Their situation can be improved but is there the political will?

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Opinion | 17 July 2019

Courts should not refuse bail to immigrants without good reason

Being foreign does not justify a refusal of bail

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Opinion | 26 June 2019

The right to die with dignity

We need to change our law

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Opinion | 19 June 2019

Victory for children’s rights in the Western Cape

Commissioner for Children to be appointed

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Opinion | 11 June 2019

How Wynberg court is evading public scrutiny

Magistrates are ignoring Constitutional Court judgment

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Opinion | 10 June 2019

Police are making arbitrary arrests at protests

Spurious charges are time-consuming and costly, and undermine the right to protest

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Opinion | 30 May 2019

One door of learning has opened, but the others are still firmly shut

Unless we fix the school system, the gains won by the #Feesmustfall campaign will mean very little

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Opinion | 21 May 2019

Informal settlements need better rubbish collection

Reform of the system is necessary to “keep Cape Town clean”

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Analysis | 15 May 2019

Political donations: the silence of the developers

Most fail to answer questions sent by the Observatory Civic Association

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Opinion | 6 May 2019

President Ramaphosa should sign Copyright Amendment bill

Freedom of Panorama provision will help put more South African related content onto Wikipedia

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Opinion | 25 April 2019