Measles-Rubella Mass Vaccination Campaign for Gauteng

Cllr Tshegofatso Mashabela|Published

The province-wide Measles-Rubella Mass Vaccination Campaign targets all children aged 6 months to 15 years, regardless of their current vaccination status.

DA demands urgent forensic investigation into Alexandra K206 housing allocation crisis

Mervyn Cirota|Published

Despite being a government-sponsored project designed to provide subsidised housing and promote income generation through rental units, the K206 housing development ...

Calls for Accountability in South Africa’s Leadership

Teboho Loate|Published

Research from a 2013 study on South African local government (ResearchGate) underscores a persistent pattern of ethical lapses among public officials, a crisis that ...

Victory for press freedom

Published

In their efforts to provide the public with information about controversial yet important events, journalists in South Africa face constant intimidation, sometimes ...

Africa Needs Genuine Friends and Solidarity, Not Big Brother Mentality

Gideon Chitanga|Updated

US-South Africa relations are in jeopardy, but not because Pretoria has violated any of its domestic or international obligations.   South Africa has consistently ...

‘Women should not only be present in science – they must shape its direction’

Dr Rakeshnie Ramoutar|Published

As we mark just over 30 years of freedom and reflect on 30 years of global gender advocacy since the Beijing resolution, we must shift our efforts from a focus on ...

30% Tariffs from the US government, 0% Leadership from the GNU government

Roger Solomons|Published

Trade tensions between SA and the US, and represents a direct threat to thousands of South African jobs in key export sectors such as automotive manufacturing, agriculture, ...

Celebrating the power of diversity as women continue to reshape the engineering sector

Maureen Phiri|Published

Engineering is often associated with physically demanding labour, which has helped to perpetuate the dominance of men in the industry. However, the landscape is ...

Kalafong: A Crisis of Filth, Neglect, and Government Failure

Zingiswa Mndayi|Published

Kalafong Provincial Hospital might be the dirtiest, filthiest, and most unhygienic hospital I have ever visited in my life, but the service I received from capable, ...

Joburg Water’s communication collapse deepens city’s water crisis

Nico De Jager|Published

The lack of communication by Joburg Water means that residents are left unprepared for water outages. Not all residents can afford to buy water that is needed for ...

Police are crying for help

Staff Reporter|Published

Gun Free South Africa states that a 1999 analysis found that more than 80% of police suicides were committed with service weapons. The organisation blames the ready ...

The strike was never our destination

FlySafair pilots|Updated

Pilots are now standing together, because we cannot allow silence to signal acceptance any longer. Initially, the airline’s pilots intended to strike one day to ...

GDE must stop victimising Pretoria High School for Girls Principal

Sergio Isa Dos Santos|Published

The DA calls on ...

US tariffs will test South Africa’s economic resilience

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

The U. S. tariffs are a stress test for South Africa’s economic resilience. While the short-term pain is inevitable, strategic diplomacy, trade finance innovation, ...

Bumpy road lies ahead for the nation

Kenneth Mokgatlhe|Published

The ground is fertile in the US to act against the South African government, which is believed to have acted against the US’s national interests. The US has been ...

Mandela’s legacy hijacked: Christian groups slam NMF for anti-faith campaign

Daniel Johnson|Published

Nelson Mandela explicitly recognised “the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism” in 1993 and insisted on “the right of the state of Israel to exist within ...

Rising debt: calls for greater consumer vigilance

Staff Reporter|Published

The National Financial Ombud Scheme South Africa (NFO) is concerned about high levels of debt exposure in the wake of the release of TransUnion’s Q1 2025 Industry ...

Commission must lead to consequences, sanctions and ultimately justice

Mohamed Saeed|Published

On Sunday, 13 July 2025, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the formation of a commission of inquiry to focus on the shocking allegations that KwaZulu-Natal police ...