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Opinionistas

Mark Heywood

Mark Heywood

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and the urgency of empathy in the face of injustice

4 November 2025

Sean Summers

Sean Summers

We need to get to grips with online gambling — start with banning ads

3 November 2025

Ian Khama

Ian Khama

Africa’s arc of autocracy exacts a substantial human and economic cost

3 November 2025

Azubuike Ishiekwene

Azubuike Ishiekwene

Careless US charges of Nigerian genocide are disingenuous and alarmist

3 November 2025

Don Pinnock

Don Pinnock

Moral panic or measured response? The politics behind South Africa’s elephant ‘crisis’

2 November 2025

Jahni de Villiers

Jahni de Villiers

My plea to fellow Afrikaners — stop navel-gazing and get stuck in

2 November 2025

Professor Balthazar

Professor Balthazar

Institutions that regulate the legal profession don’t inspire confidence

2 November 2025

Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

A type of perceptual narrowing shapes the DA’s policies and approach to politics

2 November 2025

Stanley Maphosa

Stanley Maphosa

Smoking guns — how SA’s failure to control firearms is enabling organised crime

30 October 2025

Bhekisisa Mncube

Bhekisisa Mncube

Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: Unbloat the Cabinet by reinstating the evergreen Senzo Mchunu

30 October 2025

Arnold Tsunga

Arnold Tsunga

Tanzania — from leader of Frontline States to a net exporter of authoritarianism

29 October 2025

Barney Pityana

Barney Pityana

Saving Fort Hare from ruin — why I support the vice-chancellor to build a university of stature and eminence

29 October 2025