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opinion

Prison journalism: How to endure the winters of a life sentence

Sam Smith
LGBTQIA+

Gloria is Sam Smith’s acceptance speech

Stop homophobia
LGBTQIA+

3 stages of homophobia and why most queer people hate themselves

Winter prison snow
Opinion

Prison journalism: How to endure the winters of a life sentence

Sam Smith
LGBTQIA+

Gloria is Sam Smith’s acceptance speech

Stop homophobia
LGBTQIA+

3 stages of homophobia and why most queer people hate themselves

Donald Trump South Africa
Opinion

No other plans? Why Donald Trump should move to South Africa

By Tom Head20-01-2021 18:12

Now he’s left the White House, speculation about the future of Donald Trump is mounting. Here’s why we think he should come and live in South Africa.

influencer social media
Opinion

Influencer culture: Why we buy into it – yes, we even buy their bath water

By Elme Strydom30-09-2020 12:02

When it comes to influencer culture, don’t throw the babe out with the bathwater because it’s been around for centuries.

lion farms
Opinion

Lion farms: A public health risk to humans and animals

By Louise de Waal28-09-2020 10:17

A joint scientific study by Blood Lions and World Animal Protection highlights how lion farms in South Africa pose a potential health risk to thousands of local and international tourists, as well as the work force and respective communities.

youth
Opinion

COVID-19 and its effect on the youth of South Africa

By Natale Labia21-08-2020 14:24

In his first major public appearance since retiring as president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi chose to highlight a cause that has been somewhat ignored through the COVID-19 crisis: The plight of the youth.

fake news
Opinion

The ‘infodemic’: How fake news and misinformation turn deadly

By Madison Moulton17-08-2020 12:58

Too much information is not always a good thing. As 2020 has proven, fake news may even cost you your life.

elephant
Opinion

Elephants are still in trouble on World Elephant Day

By Iga Motylska12-08-2020 10:25

World Elephant Day: Africa is home to around 415,000 African elephants – a sobering 30% drop in the last decade and down from 10 million a century ago.

lion
Opinion

World Lion Day: Lions still shortchanged by SA wildlife laws

By Iga Motylska11-08-2020 12:09

World Lion Day, which was yesterday, celebrates one of South Africa’s most iconic species – lions.

orlando pirates vs chippa united
Opinion

Why lockdown came at the right time for Lorch and Pirates

By Zaahid Nanabhay05-08-2020 19:20

Any hope of Jozef Zinnbauer’s Orlando Pirates winning silverware this season rests on the form of the misfiring Thembinkosi Lorch.

feminism feminists clenched fists
Opinion

Women’s Month: Students speak out about what feminism means to them

By Alicia Naidoo05-08-2020 11:13

Ahead of National Women’s Day in South Africa on Sunday 9 August, we asked university students for their perspectives on feminism.

scales of justice watching the watchmen judiciary
Opinion

Who will watch the watchmen? Spotlight on South Africa’s judiciary

By Karel van der Vyver20-07-2020 13:38

We need to trust the justice system as a branch of government, but this leads to the burning question of who keeps an eye on the judiciary?

Labanon
Opinion

Lessons from Lebanon: South Africa must tread with care to avoid crisis

By Natale Labia14-07-2020 16:02

It is no small thing for the people of Lebanon to describe a situation as a crisis. South Africans would do well to take note.

load shedding
Opinion

Load shedding during a pandemic is not an inconvenience, it’s a disaster

By Madison Moulton14-07-2020 12:03

Continued load shedding, on top of a pandemic and countrywide lockdown, is a situation South Africans can ill-afford.

Patrick Atherton
Opinion

‘The most valiant fight of my life’ – Pat Atherton’s war on cancer

By Craig Doonan08-07-2020 14:30

Pat Atherton is a warrior fighting a war which claims casualties every day. Many survive – and Pat plans to be one of them. He shares in his own words below on how, like a bolt from the blue, he was diagnosed with cancer in August 2019 and the brave fight for his life he’s been waging ever since.

Black lives matter apartheid south africa
Opinion

Black Lives Matter: Lessons in white allyship from South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement

By The Conversation07-07-2020 22:09

Our ongoing research into the SA anti-apartheid movement provides four key lessons we can draw on today in the fight against racism, writes University of London lecturer.

Bheki Cele
Opinion

Cape Town housing crisis ‘more complex than it seems’

By Ground Up06-07-2020 13:58

Urban planner Jens Horber suggests that the issue of forced evictions and Cape Town’s housing crisis ids the result of a multitude of problems.

5G
Opinion

Five reasons why 5G has nothing to do with COVID-19

By Luis Monzon06-07-2020 12:09

This bizarre theory about 5G seemingly spewed up from nowhere has since been peddled by online conspiracy theorists and even celebrities on social media.

BEE
Opinion

No, BEE is not racist. But it does need some work…

By Madison Moulton24-06-2020 17:00

The controversial BEE debate is back, and the misconceptions bigger than ever.

Helen Zille cadre deployment apartheid
Opinion

Helen Zille’s DA and the high price of personalised political pride

By Luke Daniel24-06-2020 13:33

The veteran politician who helped build the official opposition party is now tearing it apart.

electoral
Opinion

Will the Constitutional Court ruling fix the problems in our electoral system? Probably not.

By Madison Moulton18-06-2020 19:00

Some say the Electoral Act ruling is a game-changer, while others question its potential impact.

wildlife
Opinion

Is this the breaking point for South Africa’s live wildlife trade?

By Iga Motylska17-06-2020 13:29

Tigers, chimps and wolves are among animals in DEFF-sanctioned wildlife trading which could provide a front for the illegal trade and might be the cause of future zoonotic outbreaks, finds The Breaking Point report.

Rome
Opinion

What Italy’s ‘Stati Generali’ can teach South Africa

By Natale Labia16-06-2020 12:10

Natale Labia gives his view on what an Italian conference on life after COVID-19 can teach South Africa and its politicians.

lockdown
Opinion

South Africans are tired of lockdown – what happens if it returns?

By Madison Moulton12-06-2020 15:21

Level 3 lockdown has given South Africa a taste of freedom. While many await the move to Level 2, President Cyril Ramaphosa reminded the country in his statement that some areas may return to higher alert levels if necessary.

winged lion of venice
Opinion

Watch: SA can learn these important lockdown lessons from Italy

By Amonette van den Heever05-06-2020 13:52

To see what SA might learn from the Italian context, The South African chatted to private equity firm partner Natale Labia, a South African expat who moved to Milan just before the COVID-19 outbreak.

Nadine McKenzie
Opinion

Body politics: ‘Decolonising’ disability through performance art

By Wiaam Jacobs03-06-2020 20:30

Our society need to rethink ways in which to include disabled people through theatre and performance.

lion farms
Opinion

Conservation leaders urge UN World Tourism Organisation: Curb wildlife exploitation in ‘tomorrow’s tourism’

By Louzel Lombard Steyn01-06-2020 14:05

The thing with keeping wildlife in cages is that it almost always turns around to bite you in the behind.

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