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- We can prioritise citizens and help asylum seekers
South Africa must confront the refugee question with greater clarity, structure and balance. While the country has a tradition of offering refuge to those fleeing conflict and persecution, the unstructured approach places growing pressure on strained public services, local economies and communities. Many nations manage refugee inflows through designated refugee… Read more » - Rethinking the meaning of Youth Day
June 16, 2026, marked 50 years since Soweto pupils marched against the imposition of Afrikaans in black schools. Interestingly, Afrikaners continue to fight for their language. By contrast, African languages are dying. Few black citizens are mobilising to revive them. Do black South Africans grasp the importance of language in… Read more » - US and Israel lose face in deal while Iran sits pretty
Reports indicate that a devastating document leak has “uncovered” the terms of Donald Trump’s new agreement with Tehran, signalling a massive geopolitical shift. Inside the G7 summit, an insecure Trump bitterly insulted former president Barack Obama to the media, a move analysts call a desperate attempt to deflect from what… Read more » - Charmza
Bafana Bafana midfield workhorse Teboho Mokoena is undoubtedly our Charmza this week. First, Mokoena showed the whole world how patriotic he is when tears rolled down his cheeks when the South African national anthem Nkosi Sikelela iAfrica was sung. He explained later that those tears were for his late grandfather… Read more » - Moegoe
The cheek of Geordin Hill-Lewis, the DA’s new darling, is something to behold. No sooner does he snatch the crown than he plays Brutus to John Steenhuisen’s Caesar. Good old Steenhuisen stepped aside nicely, only to be knifed in the back and stripped of his ministerial perks. Now, young Hill-Lewis… Read more » - Climate literate youth: The key to environmental justice
Every June, World Environment Day is observed. In South Africa, in the same month, we reflect on the sacrifices of the 1976 youth as well as the challenges faced by the youth of today, and one of those is environmental injustice. Climate change, pollution, especially air pollution and waste; water… Read more » - Dhladhla’s passing at work: An ongoing toxic workplace regime
In my industrial sociology class with the late Prof Eddie Webster in the mid-1990s, I was introduced to how the South African apartheid workplace was racialised with the intention of creating profit for the white capitalist system. Webster amply writes about how this racialised workplace manifests in disciplinary control of… Read more » - TVET colleges investing in youth and future economy
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges have increasingly become a topic when debating South Africa’s post-school education and training system and youth (un)employment. While concerns about student success rates and systemic challenges deserve serious attention, they should not overshadow the larger story unfolding within the sector in relation… Read more » - Bring-and-share Cabinet: When coalition politics eats the law
To understand what happened last Wednesday when the Democratic Alliance leader issued a statement that effectively reshuffled the Cabinet, it helps to begin not in Pretoria but in April, when Geordin Hill-Lewis defeated John Steenhuisen in the DA’s federal leadership contest, ending the Steenhuisen’s tenure as party leader. What happened… Read more » - Russian, Persian grandmasters have advantage over the West
Reading Western and Ukrainian media, one would be convinced that the Ukrainian forces are winning and advancing on the front lines. That their drone strategy is hurting Russians deep inside mother Russia. And Volodymyr Zelensky’s big talk that “if Ukraine burns, then Russia will also burn” is hailed by many… Read more »
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