Opinion

Lives and eyes lost: excessive use of rubber bullets by police is common

Mthokozisi Ntumba’s death points to bigger SAPS failures

Budget 2022 will reinforce inequality

Less money for public schools and health care, but tax breaks for corporates and individual taxpayers

Long-awaited policy on pregnant learners promises a new dawn

The Department of Education’s Learner Pregnancy Policy is a positive step but has shortcomings

Solitary confinement is illegal. So why is it happening in South African prisons?

Silence on far-reaching changes in housing delivery during SONA

Government is shifting to a site-and-service model rather than building houses

POPI Act: confessions of a convert

This new law will ensure that information about us is kept where it belongs but it is being widely misinterpreted

Health policy has become a confused mess

The health department has withdrawn welcome changes to isolation, quarantine and contact tracing policies

We should not let people suffer and die alone in hospital

Restrictive hospital visitor policies don’t make sense anymore

Ventilation is key to controlling Covid

We need a national project to improve the air we breathe in buildings and vehicles

Booster vaccines must be offered to older people immediately

The six month gap is too long. It should be reduced to four.

Drugs are not the problem. The way we think about them is

We need to solve the social issues that make drug use a solution

Universal social security is now a matter of urgency

Government must implement a policy for either a basic income grant or a grant for unemployed people

OUTA: Government is wasting money and using delaying tactics to hide information

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse wonders why SANRAL opposed a request for information and then didn’t turn up for court

Our faulty approach to life sentences is catching up with us

Our prisons are crowded with “lifers”, at great cost to us all

India’s Supreme Court strikes a blow against the use of spyware

Ruling offers ways to hold governments and companies accountable

Elections 2021: where are the promises to our children?

Bureaucracy is suffocating our crèches. Local governments can do something about it.