Browsing: inequality

Prof Itumeleng Mothoagae argues that deploying soldiers into townships reflects a failure of governance, not a solution to South Africa’s deep structural inequalities.

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 opinion piece, Siyabonga Hadebe interrogates how capitalism feeds on human life itself, reducing birth, love, labour, ageing and death to market transactions governed by profit.

Sandile Memela writes that Christmas exposes how inequality quietly divides South African families, turning festive gatherings into spaces of tension, guilt, and fragile unity.

Siyabonga Hadebe contends that South Africa’s possible undercount is not a statistical failure, but proof of a democracy that never learned how to see its own people.

Siyabonga Hadebe highlights how South Africa remains deeply divided between a wealthy white core and an impoverished black periphery, arguing that political parties distract from addressing the country’s enduring structural inequalities.

Expensive, selective state funerals deepen inequality, reward connections over service, and turn mourning into political theatre.