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CHRIS ROPER: The politics of punching down

When cruelty becomes a campaign strategy

Donald Trump vs Navi Pillay.

Trumped by a South African nobody. The shame!

Navi Pillay’s accolade is Donald’s sour grapes

The Constitutional Court.

EDITORIAL: The Concourt is right on refugees. So is home affairs

There's a gap between asylum rights and administrative reality

The plague of patriotism: Flags up, blinkers on

Is love of country blinding us to our shared humanity?

A Kaapse Klopse group perform outside the District Six Museum on Heritage Day

District Six: A phoenix with clipped wings

Decades later, District Six restitution remains unfinished

Violence against women won’t be fixed by hashtags

GBV needs action, not another round of empty promises

Was De Kock the real ‘Prime Evil’?

Eugene de Kock challenges the incomplete prosecution of apartheid-era security bosses

Forgotten constitution. Rawpixel/Currency collage

Human Rights Day and the fine art of ignoring the constitution

It’s 30 years since South Africa’s constitution was enacted. To what extent has it succeeded in advancing the human rights it codifies

SA international relations hypocrisy. Rawpixel/Currency collage

South Africa’s hypocrisy is not just laughable – it’s Trumpian

South Africa’s selective outrage is two-faced: loud at the UN on the US, silent on African strongmen. Pretoria keeps gambling with its credibility