Global March to Gaza is a moral reckoning
This week, I joined a South African delegation en route to the Rafah border in Egypt as part of the...
Africa
MK party’s power problem: The fragility of proximity politics
Floyd Shivambu’s redeployment from the position of secretary general of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party to a seat in parliament...
Tanzania leads the fight to end maternal deaths
Tanzania has made great progress in saving the lives of mothers. In just seven years, the country’s maternal mortality rate...
Reimagining SA-US relations in the aftermath of the Oval Office spectacle
The Oval Office encounter between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump was no ordinary diplomatic engagement....
Unpacking the dangers of the proposed amendments to Zambia’s constitution, Part II
In this series on Zambia, Part II looks at legalising the use of public resources for election campaigns. (Part 1 here)...
Ask Ash | Johannesburg’s housing crisis is like a movie on loop
I decided to rewatch the movie Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema. Besides being an excellent film directed by Ralph Ziman, I started...
It’s time to talk about weaponising visas against Africans
The anti-migration regulations in Europe and the US against Africans continue to affect the sociopolitical and economic development of Africa....
Less testing, more thinking: The case for project-based learning in schools
When we talk about what school must teach young people to be, we often fall back on buzzwords: entrepreneurs, forward-facing...
Draft oil and gas regulations spark climate justice concerns
Draft regulations under the Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Act may be prioritising oil and gas development and disregarding the imperative...
South Africa must revive its industrial ambitions
South Africa’s industrial decline is accelerating. State-owned enterprises that once drove economic transformation now epitomise institutional failure. Eskom’s power cuts...
