Government
Time to demand equal rights for blind people
Being blind or visually impaired means many things in life are simply much more difficult than what they are for other people. Some of these things we can do something about, others we can’t. There are two fundamentally different ways for society and governments to respond to this unpleasant reality. The one option is pity and non-integration - the other is to forget about pity and to take practical steps to make things as equal as possible so that blind people can integrate into society.
Marcus Low
Opinion | 18 November 2015
The damning evidence against Phiyega and SAPS leadership
Suspended Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega has had a difficult year. Suspended by President Jacob Zuma following the Farlam Commission report which called for an investigation into her fitness to hold office for among other things tampering with evidence and lying, she now faces significant findings against her from an inquiry by the Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko.
Craig Oosthuizen and Zackie Achmat
Analysis | 13 November 2015
The debt machine and the politics of 0%
The current wave of student protests in South Africa has been mostly analysed from a national and local perspective.
Achille Mbembe
Opinion | 13 November 2015
Masiphumelele will get a police station - when it’s safe
Masiphumelele residents who have been promised a new mobile police station will have to wait until the police decide it’s safe to install it.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 12 November 2015
Waste pickers protest over access to dump site
Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades today against waste pickers protesting at a dump site in Pietermaritzburg against plans to stop them collecting on the site.
Ntombi Mbomvu
News | 11 November 2015
Government job freeze alarms health professionals
No vacant posts in Eastern Cape public hospitals and clinics are to be filled until December, according to a departmental circular. The Rural Health Advocacy Project fears that if such measures continue it could have “catastrophic consequences for health care”, especially in the rural areas.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 9 November 2015
Zakhele Mbhele of the DA replies to R2K’s Murray Hunter
Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow minister for police, MP Zakhele Mbhele, replies to Murray Hunter's DA's shadow bill misses the key point on the National Key Points Act.
Zakhele Mbhele
News | 9 November 2015
Fees should not fall for all
Free higher education for all privileges the rich, argues Nico Cloete of the Centre for Higher Education Trust (CHET).
Nico Cloete
Analysis | 8 November 2015
“You are a bully” students tell principal
Students at Iqhayiya Secondary School in Khayelitsha claim that they are subjected to corporal punishment, have to pay school fees when they are a no fee school and are unable to be members of organisations such as Equal Education.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 6 November 2015