Category: Opinion

WHO’S MY DAD? IN SOUTH AFRICA THAT’S A COMPLEX QUESTION – REPORT TRACKS THE RISE OF ‘SOCIAL FATHERS’

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Sun 09 March 2025: The State of South Africa’s Fathers 2024 report is published by the new Tataokhona project at Stellenbosch University. The project focuses on research and interventions related to fathers and fatherhood. This is the third edition of this report, and offers valuable insights into the evolving realities of fatherhood in South Africa. Co-authors Wessel van den […]

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15 MILLION SOUTH AFRICANS DON’T GET ENOUGH TO EAT EVERY DAY: 4 SOLUTIONS

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 Gift of the Givers teams provide hot meals to flood displaced victims in Soweto [ Dec 9, 2022 – File photo] Wed 05 March 2025: At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives. This is due to a combination of factors, including unemployment, poverty, inequality and food system […]

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WHITE MALICE: HOW THE CIA STRANGLED AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE AT BIRTH

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Patrice Lumumba, center, first Prime Minister of independent Congo in 1960. The CIA celebrated his death Tue 04 March 2025: Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of southern Africa, she empathises with the continent’s people. Williams’ widely acknowledged new book, White Malice – The CIA and […]

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WHY DOES WAZIR-E-ALA ADITYANATH HAVE A GROUSE AGAINST URDU?

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Mon 03 March 2025: In the politics surrounding Urdu, the primary focus is on the Muslim community with the objective of fostering polarisation. Besides indulging in other propaganda tactics, a favourite pastime of those who engage in divisive politics is to attack Muslims by targeting the Urdu language. Under this political stratagem, ‘Kathmulla’ is the latest term […]

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SOUTH AFRICA HAS FAILED TO DELIVER ACCESS TO ENOUGH WATER FOR MILLIONS – A NEW APPROACH IS NEEDED

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Mon 03 March 2025: South Africa is one of only 52 countries that guarantee access to water as a human right. “Access” from a human rights perspective means that water is physically accessible, clean and safe for consumption, and affordable. Section 27 of the country’s constitution stipulates that everyone has the right to access sufficient water. But South […]

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SLAVERY REPARATIONS: WHY THE WEST IS MORALLY BOUND TO PAY THEM

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Sun 02 March 2025: During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, millions of Africans were captured to provide free labour in North and South America and the Caribbean for over four and a half centuries. The question of whether reparations should be paid to the continent of Africa for the trans-Atlantic slave trade is still being debated. It is unlikely […]

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6 IN 10 YOUNG SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE NO JOBS. WHY SOME STILL REJECT OFFERS OF WORK

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Fri 28 February 2025: South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. The official rate is 32%, rising to 42% when discouraged job seekers are included. Among young people aged 15 to 24, unemployment reaches a staggering 60%. While much attention has focused on youth exclusion from the labour market and their survival strategies, far less is […]

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