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A national disaster: What GBV survivors in SA say they actually need
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

A national disaster: What GBV survivors in SA say they actually need

Research released months before SA’s historic national disaster declaration of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) reveals a gap between what the justice system offers and what survivors say they actually need.

By Daniélle Schaafsma
Maverick Citizen

What’s Eating Us? Maverick Citizen launches third season of food justice podcast

By Lillian Roberts
What’s Eating Us? Maverick Citizen launches third season of food justice podcast
MUNICIPAL COLLAPSE

A 30-year slow-motion crash: The foundations and realities of SA’s local government crisis

By Dale T McKinley
A 30-year slow-motion crash: The foundations and realities of SA’s local government crisis
FOOD BASKET

SAHRC food system hearings conclude, as the SRD grant fails to buy basic food

By Lillian Roberts
SAHRC food system hearings conclude, as the SRD grant fails to buy basic food
SUBSISTENCE FARMING OP-ED

Investing in women farmers could bridge the gap between inadequate grants and child nutrition

By Sibongiseni Peacock, Angela Larkan and Rahima Essop
Investing in women farmers could bridge the gap between inadequate grants and child nutrition
Farewell, Stephen Lewis, the man who shamed the world into seeing Africa's Aids catastrophe
OBITUARY

Farewell, Stephen Lewis, the man who shamed the world into seeing Africa's Aids catastrophe

By Herman Lategan
Can talks save South Africa’s NHI from a courtroom war? We talk to the health minister
BHEKISISA

Can talks save South Africa’s NHI from a courtroom war? We talk to the health minister

By Mia Malan and Anna-Maria van Niekerk
Inside the Box: Are there appropriate sanctions for non-compliance with medicines legislation in SA?
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED

Inside the Box: Are there appropriate sanctions for non-compliance with medicines legislation in SA?

By Dr Andy Gray for Spotlight
Committed to halving food waste by 2030, South Africa doesn’t know if it’s winning
HUNGER FOR CHANGE

Committed to halving food waste by 2030, South Africa doesn’t know if it’s winning

By Daniélle Schaafsma
Cape Town nonprofit Orange Art Project draws foster children into world of creativity
ART FROM THE HEART

Cape Town nonprofit Orange Art Project draws foster children into world of creativity

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
What’s Eating Us? Podcast travels
PHOTO ESSAY

What’s Eating Us? Podcast travels

By Felix Dlangamandla
Dire Strait of Hormuz
CARTOON

Dire Strait of Hormuz

By 2Lani and UBUNTOONS
SPOTLIGHT

Child stunting crisis mirrors early HIV blindness as experts urge urgent course correction

By Janet Heard for Spotlight
Child stunting crisis mirrors early HIV blindness as experts urge urgent course correction
Maverick Citizen

In the thorns: Farmworkers exposed to pesticides in De Doorns fear speaking out

By Lillian Roberts
In the thorns: Farmworkers exposed to pesticides in De Doorns fear speaking out
OPINIONISTA

Women, Parliament and the return of the ‘Cult of Femininity’

By Babalwa Magoqwana
Women, Parliament and the return of the ‘Cult of Femininity’
BUDGET PRESSURE

Learning in the dark as 138 Ekurhuleni schools face electricity, water cuts over R82m debt

By Takudzwa Pongweni
OPEN LETTER

I will not let corrupt networks steal the future of 13 million SA children

By Siviwe Gwarube
OVERSIGHT LAPSE

Official reports highlight systemic issues and financial rot at Ekurhuleni special needs school

By Takudzwa Pongweni
OPINIONISTA

Obstetric violence: A scandal hindering women’s reproductive justice today

By Sheena Swemmer
Former minister Nobuhle Nkabane takes responsibility for Seta appointment blunders amid ethics investigation
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Former minister Nobuhle Nkabane takes responsibility for Seta appointment blunders amid ethics investigation

Former of higher education and training minister Nobuhle Nkabane has admitted that she failed to detect flaws and early signs in the process of the appointment of the Seta board chairpersons. This comes after the Ethics Committee found her guilty of breaching the code of ethics by misleading Parliament and the public over the appointments.

By Siyabonga Goni
CONSENSUS JITTERS

Is the Just Transition slipping away? Power imbalances shaping SA’s energy future

By Lerato Mutsila
GRASSROOTS GUARDIAN

‘Malo’: The woman who became a mother to Soweto’s lost children

By Oliver Roberts
OPINIONISTA

Debasing people’s basic right to access enough food is a travesty

By Zukiswa Pikoli
OPINIONISTA

How to end the SA health sector crisis — a unified public-private rescue plan

By Olive Shisana
‘Constitutional crisis’: Experts flag UIF, data gaps amid rising food insecurity in SA’s stunting scourge
NUTRITION PROBE

‘Constitutional crisis’: Experts flag UIF, data gaps amid rising food insecurity in SA’s stunting scourge

By Daniélle Schaafsma
Adolescents are the missing middle falling through the cracks of TB care
OPINIONISTA

Adolescents are the missing middle falling through the cracks of TB care

By Susan Purchase
Democracy on a tightrope as balance between expertise and elected power grows increasingly fragile
POLITICAL DRIFT

Democracy on a tightrope as balance between expertise and elected power grows increasingly fragile

By Pedro Abramovay and Gabriela Lotta
The fight against TB is inseparable from the struggle for human rights
SPOTLIGHT

The fight against TB is inseparable from the struggle for human rights

By Renier Coetzee and Ingrid Schoeman for Spotlight
The nice cutlery — why dignity in SA should not be seasonal
OPINIONISTA

The nice cutlery — why dignity in SA should not be seasonal

By Bontle Mokgaotsi

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