Opinion and Analysis

Has the national government abandoned vaccination?

Vaccine uptake has dropped dramatically and there appears to be no push from the President or the national health department to change this

By Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

Analysis | 16 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

By Jacques Louw

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The health department has withdrawn welcome changes to isolation, quarantine and contact tracing policies

By Nathan Geffen

Opinion | 29 December 2021

We should not let people suffer and die alone in hospital

Restrictive hospital visitor policies don’t make sense anymore

By Gareth Kantor

Opinion | 14 December 2021

An optimal vaccine strategy for middle-income countries

A mixture of Chinese-manufactured vaccines and mRNA booster may be the way to go

By Neil Thomas Stacey

Analysis | 13 December 2021

Ventilation is key to controlling Covid

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

By Gareth Kantor, Norman Khoza, Sean Chester and Garth Hunter

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.

By Leon Geffen and Gabrielle Kelly

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

By Shaun Shelly

Opinion | 7 December 2021

Vaccine rollout: the government has made three mistakes

As a result, we have at least 13 million unused vaccines

By Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

Analysis | 6 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

By Abongile Nkamisa and Ariella Scher

Opinion | 3 December 2021

Law and power: the long road to equality for gay men

The 1998 “Sodomy Case” confirmed LGBTIQ rights at last

By Zackie Achmat

Analysis | 29 November 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

By Brendan Slade

Opinion | 26 November 2021

PRASA CEO Zolani - aka Kgosie - Matthews: an embarrassing appointment

He has been suspended because of information that should have been known to the board before he was appointed

By James Stent

Analysis | 23 November 2021

Social grants: the research behind the controversy

We look at how different grants were evaluated in the recent SALDRU study

By James Stent

Analysis | 11 November 2021

Law and power: How a prisoner’s journey saved the lives of thousands

A look back at the battle for the rights of HIV-positive prisoners

By Zackie Achmat

Analysis | 11 November 2021

Our faulty approach to life sentences is catching up with us

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

By Edwin Cameron

Opinion | 10 November 2021