Parliamentâs Portfolio Committee on Policing should ask police management some tough questions, writes Zackie Achmat in the second in a series of articles on policing.
Zackie Achmat
Opinion | 24 October 2014
The City is not opposed to social audits, but takes issue with the way the SJC carried out its audit, writes Counsellor Ernest Sonnenberg in response to Professor Sandra Liebenberg.
Ernest Sonnenberg
Opinion | 23 October 2014
Itâs annual report season in Parliament, and the new Portfolio Committee on Police is finding its feet. In the first in a series of articles, Zackie Achmat has some suggestions for the committee.
Zackie Achmat
Opinion | 23 October 2014
Social audits are a valuable tool in implementing socio-economic rights, which is why the response by the City of Cape Town to the social audit of janitorial services in Khayelitsha is disturbing, writes Sandra Liebenberg.
Sandra Liebenberg
Opinion | 22 October 2014
In her latest article from the frontline of the Ebola epidemic, Kathryn Stinson âlooks for answers in a quarantined village in Sierra Leone.
Kathryn Stinson
Opinion | 21 October 2014
Sunday October 19 marks the commemoration of âBlack Wednesdayâ, the day in 1977 that the apartheid government banned a range of publications sympathetic to the Black Consciousness Movement, and arrested a group of journalists and editors.
Mark Weinberg
Opinion | 17 October 2014
Tightening border controls is not the way to prevent an outbreak of Ebola in South Africa, writes Nathan Geffen.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 16 October 2014
No doubt youâve heard thereâs a disease about that is infectious, difficult to treat and that has an extremely high death rate.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 15 October 2014
Daars a nuwe hond in die omgewing en hy raas soos ân baas! Kak gevaarlik and here to claim back the throne as the original Afrikaans gangsters, Dookoom have dropped a 4-track EP, A Gangster Called Big Times, and with the controversy caused by the debut single âLarney Jou Poesâ, there are no sorryâs here.
Zethu Gqola
Opinion | 15 October 2014
A new law is intended to make it easier for poor people to get decent legal representation. But there is much to be done to make it work, writes Liat Davis.
Liat Davis
Opinion | 13 October 2014
âSo just think of the one who is about to die, trapped behind hundreds of walls sizzling with heat, while at the same time, there are all those people, on the telephone or in cafes âŚâ - The Plague by Albert Camus.
Kathryn Stinson
Opinion | 13 October 2014
The question of class came to the fore this week with that arch free marketeer Ann Bernstein and the Centre for Democracy and Enterprise (CDE) hailing the potential growth of a global middle class, among them teachers. At the same time, the Democratic Teachersâ Union (Sadtu) concluded its conference, declaring teachers to be ârevolutionary professionals, agents of change...in pursuit of socialismâ.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 13 October 2014
Not far from the High Court where Shrien Dewani is on trial for murder, the Judicial Service Commission is interviewing candidate judges. The Dewani trial is getting all the attention, but the selection of judges affects us all.
Rudo Chitapi
Opinion | 8 October 2014
Once again we are having calls from a number of trade unions for the private sector to exercise âsocial responsibilityâ in order to help build âa developmental stateâ. It is a far cry from 1996 when the combined labour movement presented alternative economic policy proposals.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 6 October 2014
Yesterday the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) published a social audit of the state of municipal public toilets in Khayelitsha. Councillor Ernest Sonnenberg responded. This is a reply by the SJC's Axolile Notywala and Dustin Kramer to Councillor Sonnenberg.
Axolile Notywala and Dustin Kramer
Opinion | 2 October 2014
Building a socially and racially integrated Cape Town will decrease our murder rate and other violent crime, writes Zackie Achmat.
Zackie Achmat
Opinion | 30 September 2014