Browsing: Opinion

Dr Anthony Kaziboni argues that South Africa’s water crisis is not only about supply, but about governance and fiscal discipline. With billions lost annually through non revenue water, he contends that expanding infrastructure without fixing distribution and financial accountability risks deepening inequality in an already resource constrained state.

In this legal explainer, Khomotso Makapane unpacks how sexual harassment under South African law is regulated through constitutional protections, workplace legislation, criminal statutes and judicial disciplinary processes.

Widow property dispossession continues to strip grieving women and their children of homes, dignity, and security, writes Talana Lebelo, exposing how culture is misused to justify cruelty.

In this powerful reflection, Prof Itumeleng Mothoagae reclaims Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson as a theologian of the Black Universal, arguing that his life and legacy must be read through Négritude, transatlantic ontology and the unfinished struggle for Black liberation.

One year after the murder of Muhsin Hendricks, Sikhander Coopoo reflects on grief, legal silence, and the growing fear among queer Muslims in South Africa.

Ras Advocate Sipho Mantula presents a Pan Afrikan and human rights perspective on SONA 2026, interrogating political memory, water justice, organised crime, corruption and South Africa’s continental posture.

Professor Cameron Modisane evaluates SONA 2026 and argues that South Africa’s economic progress depends on execution, institutional capacity and measurable delivery rather than policy promises alone.

Prof ID Mothoagae contends the Madlanga Commission is a forensic audit of an unfinished transition and enduring criminal continuity.

At the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane, Moafrika Wa Maila witnesses a rare culture of greetings, humility and brotherhood that keeps the legal profession human.

Persistent water outages across Gauteng are not isolated technical faults but signs of deeper systemic weakness, writes Professor Anja du Plessis, warning that ageing infrastructure, high demand and limited storage have left metropolitan networks too fragile to withstand routine disruptions.