Opinion

ROB ROSE: UCT and the limits of free speech

UCT could expel a councillor for his views

CHRIS ROPER: Homer, but make it AI

Elon Musk’s seven-minute voyage into AI hell

MICHAEL AVERY: Payments reform faces SIM card fraud test

The future of payments depends on getting identity right

NATASHA MARRIAN: Inside the Treasury’s moves to rein in rogue municipalities

The government's long-awaited plan to fix municipalities

DUNCAN McLEOD: The Prime-ification of South African retail

Deals are tailored to each shopper’s buying behaviour

MARC HASENFUSS: Dithering on the vine after buying Distell

Will Heineken make a decent return on wine?

EDITORIAL: The economy is bigger on paper but no richer in reality

Larger GDP on paper, but the same old economic problems

JUSTICE MALALA: What local politicians can learn from Trump

As coalition talks begin, new leaders must focus on delivery

A poster from the ANC hangs along a road in Soweto, Johannesburg.

Why has Ramaphosa, SA’s most promising president, failed?

The perpetual consensus builder has failed to grasp the nettle of reform

Potholes in Evaton, Ext 11 in the Emfuleni local municipality.

The ANC’s sinkhole

The party’s Zanufication continues apace

DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille.

Real Politics: Johannesburg is now or never for the DA

Why Johannesburg is the DA’s biggest test before Gauteng 2029

Farmers hold their nerve as El Niño threatens summer crops

A resilient start to the summer crop season

MICHAEL AVERY: The unresolved problem of the post-1994 political order

DA struggles to turn ANC disillusionment into support

Mteto Nyati at The Uncomfortable Truth event in Johannesburg.

ROB ROSE: Nyati’s next task: softening Eskom’s tariff blow

After returning Eskom to profitability, Nyati targets high prices

JUSTICE MALALA: There is another election that matters

The day before South Africans vote US citizens will vote too

NATASHA MARRIAN: The murky story of Tshwane’s dirty water

More than investigations are needed to fix water systems

MARC HASENFUSS: Alchemy, my a$$ … and other dreams

Alchemy may be out, but Mkhwanazi is in at Hulamin

JAMIE CARR: Send in the barking clones

Warhound unleashes genetically engineered dogs

TIM COHEN: Satan, shareholders and the sudden generosity of billionaires

Corporate philanthropy: commendable or just conscience laundering?

Soybeans are loaded on a truck after being harvested, in Pergamino, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

WANDILE SIHLOBO: More grain, less pain at the till

SA's bumper harvest brings food price relief, for now