Democracy & Social Justice

Questionable decision-making, poor leadership and political interference have collapsed public trust in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The current leadership at the authority, lead by Shamila Batohi, has yet to bring about change to address the wrongdoing that has left it vulnerable to corruption.

Freedom is still an unreachable destination from the peripheries. It is an ideal that easily slips out of our mouths as South Africans, but with little to show for women and gender minorities.

South Africa, like the rest of the world, emerged from the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic battered and bruised on many fronts.

An insight into Freedom Day for dispossessed indigenous people fighting giants to preserve sacred land and water. How can you redevelop sacred land by infilling parts of a river with concrete bulk?

Freedom is not absolute in South Africa and never will be. In fact, the notion of absolute freedom, while it sounds good to say, is an absurd fallacy.

The case of Life Esidimeni is one of the most significant violations of health and human rights in post-apartheid South Africa.