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The looting and violence is all about unfinished business in SA

South Africa: A nation of insiders and outsiders

Why the DA’s policy on racial inequality is out of sync with reality

Insight: How corruption is deeply rooted in SA’s past and why that matters

How the line that lockdown was not about cutting transmissions eroded govt’s credibility

‘Imposter syndrome’: Why the first black leader of SA’s main opposition party quit

Opinion

A ‘liberal’ can’t just be a white person, or a black person wishing they were white

News

Why fears that EFF, FF+ election gains show the rise of SA extremism are all in our heads

News

It’s ANC vs ANC in this year’s election

Opinion

The DA is wrong to rant at the ANC over protests where they govern

Opinion

Don’t let the DA mislead you about the voting system

Parties aren’t taking big issues seriously in this election campaign

Opinion

How Mboweni’s budget highlighted the left’s dismal failure

News

South African commentators often don’t understand the ANC – or the country

Opinion

What’s gone wrong with the ANC 107 years later

Opinion

Why EFF leaders have become the nastiest versions of themselves again

Opinion

Ramaphosa has the edge over Zuma faction when it comes to economic policy

Opinion

Cosatu is no longer the ANC’s elections trump card

Opinion

Trump’s comment about SA is a reminder that race still matters

Opinion

Ramaphosa’s possible clever strategy on land expropriation

Why SA needs to discipline the private healthcare industry

Opinion

This is the only way the ANC will be able to fix itself before elections

Opinion

How last year’s ‘deal’ with the premiers is haunting the ANC

Opinion

Why it’s wrong to blame SA’s woes on Mandela’s compromises