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Africa mourns Jesse Jackson, a global change agent
A gregarious man with a mission, a complex personality, hard-nosed politician, he strode from the pulpits of politics to the precipice of the Oval Office, paving the way along Pennsylvania Avenue for Barack Obama

Leaving is never easy but look at us now
Not long ago, it was unthinkable that the leader of the DA would ever walk up the steps to the Union Buildings

Championing a visa-free Africa
The liberalisation loosens the colonial grip on African life. It allows states to maintain sovereignty while refusing to let colonial lines dictate connectivity

The Sona love letter to SA’s agric sector
We are working to expand the sector and ensure we provide high-quality products to new markets. It remains key that the sector’s “knowledge infrastructure” is up to date and, importantly, that new entrant farmers are supported

State inaction normalises water poverty
In Limpopo’s villages, being waterless has become so normalised that people seem to have accepted that this is just how life should be — spending hours a day queuing to fill a 200 litre drum

Land as Mother: The sacred politics of food
Rebuilding a just system recognises that enduring solutions might lie in combining modern tools with older ethical frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective responsibility

Billions needed to sort water crisis
Joburg’s Dada Morero assured residents that the city would not implement water-shedding in the same way South Africans endured load-shedding

Social media fuels defamation cases
When someone is defamed, particularly online, speed matters

SA’s anti-corruption needle stalled
Over a decade after the Glenister judgments, it remains an indictment of the so-called post-state capture moment that we are not further along as a country in settling the institutional architecture required to reverse endemic corruption

Climate disasters: Time to return to basics
It is critical that municipalities prioritise the routine maintenance and upgrading of stormwater systems, bridges, roads and essential services

Sibiya flays police boss Masemola
The suspended deputy commissioner said infighting in the police service was a result of the national commissioner’s poor leadership

Beyond trade: How a new talent hub signals a deeper Sweden–South Africa partnership
In a shifting global landscape, middle-sized economies like Sweden and emerging economies like South Africa are increasingly looking to one another for collaboration in technology, green transition and digital transformation

SA’s hotspots for deadly air pollution
The Highveld, Vaal Triangle and Waterberg–Bojanala areas linked to higher rates of respiratory disease and TB

Queen of comedy in the Mother City
Celeste Ntuli turns personal roasts, faith and fearless storytelling into a must-see comedy experience as she takes her hit show to Cape Town

Layers of meaning
Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks

The Bold and the Xhosa
Executive producer, Siphosethu Tshapu strikes gold with high-stakes telenovela Inimba

Where memory meets movement
‘A Grammar of Belonging’ reframes home as something carried within the body, shaped by memory, history and shared traditions of making

Tongaat Hulett collapse looms
Vision, the lead secured lender to the troubled sugar giant, said it was committed to saving the company and jobs despite the business rescue process failing

Editorial: Tongaat Hulett must be saved
At a time when rampant unemployment — one of the country’s biggest crises and a national emergency — takes root, the looming jobs bloodbath will decimate not only the sugar industry but also blight efforts to reduce jobless numbers and wreak havoc on the region’s food security