Opinion

Silence on far-reaching changes in housing delivery during SONA

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

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Opinion | 17 February 2022

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

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Opinion | 28 January 2022

Health policy has become a confused mess

The health department has withdrawn welcome changes to isolation, quarantine and contact tracing policies

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Opinion | 29 December 2021

We should not let people suffer and die alone in hospital

Restrictive hospital visitor policies don’t make sense anymore

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Opinion | 14 December 2021

Ventilation is key to controlling Covid

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

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Opinion | 10 December 2021

Booster vaccines must be offered to older people immediately

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

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Opinion | 9 December 2021

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

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Opinion | 7 December 2021

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

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Opinion | 3 December 2021

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

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Opinion | 26 November 2021