Editorials
31.8.2018 08:50 am
Protect SA water from mining deal
The case is critically important for the environmental future of SA, as it pits the supposed job-creating mining industry against nature.
It is bizarre that SA’s department of environmental affairs is supporting a big, foreign mining company, which wants to put an environmentally damaging coal mining operation in an area that has not only been officially declared a protected area, but is also one of the country’s most important water resources zones.
Protect SA water from mining deal
The case is critically important for the environmental future of SA, as it pits the supposed job-creating mining industry against nature.
Editorials
Themba Maseko is truly one of the good guys
He has reminded us that there are government employees who still believe they are there to help give ordinary South Africans a better life.
Columns
The high seas need to get fishy again
Closing the high seas to commercial fishing would create a ‘fish bank’, producing more fish – many of which then migrate closer to the coast and boost the catch there by 18%.
Columns
Get experts to do any job properly
We need government for the people by the people. Not government for the party by politicians.
Editorials
Cyril’s Trump rant smacks of Mugabe
What is even more worrying is the possibility that Ramaphosa may, in reality, be much more like Mugabe than we would like to believe.
Editorials
There’s no keeping Pravin Gordhan down
He knows he has a tough job to do and needs to get on with it.
Columns
We should all salute the courageous Vytjie Mentor
We have failed to admire her courage to speak out against very powerful people: Zuma, the Guptas and some cronies who hold levers of state power.
Columns
Get off your knees and work to solve problems
Why would someone blindly believe the answer to their problems lies in a solution sold on a church’s Facebook page?
Editorials
Treat the moms suffering after baby swap better
People, no matter their social status, do not deserve to be treated like this.
Editorials
Jozi workers rise to water challenge
Some of the people on site worked for more than 24 hours without sleeping, turning around a project that should have taken 72 hours in just 30 hours.
Columns
Cyril’s lies of the land trump the truth
The president’s contradictory statements ultimately appease neither populists nor investors.
Columns
Tuning in to a noisy Welsh trio
Normally, I’d switch off when these pesky users sprout forth in public. But this time, having nothing else to occupy my holiday mood mind, I concentrate.
Columns
Women need to work together to achieve equality
Every woman should challenge themselves to help another in the best way they are equipped to.
Columns
At inquiries, the devil’s in the detail
It might seem the camel’s back has already been broken regarding state capture, but giving up now would be like stopping cancer treatment at the first sign of remission.
Editorials
Black farmers’ empowerment needs government support
Government has failed to back black farmers, even when they have viable businesses and solid business plans.
Columns
Three little words I dread
Trust me, nothing good can ever follow once those words are uttered.
Editorials
Msimanga saga must be out in open
Thursday’s no-confidence motion in Msimanga is welcomed, because all accusations and counter-accusations need to be out in the open.
Columns
Oh, what one could do with an Mcebisi Jonas-sized bribe
The former deputy finance minister is a stronger-willed character than most, clearly.
Columns
Commitment with a capital C isn’t dead. It’s just rare
We live in a time when it’s almost too easy to walk away. Which makes it all the more remarkable when that doesn’t happen.
Editorials
When the ANC learns from Zanu-PF, be very afraid
You don’t steal an election on polling day, a lesson our northern neighbours have probably aptly demonstrated.
Editorials
The evil of the Guptas’ state capture
Theft and corruption were taken to the level of what one former Gupta employee described to us as a ‘Mafia operation’.
Editorials
Inquiry exposes deeper Sars rot
SA needs every single cent of tax it can get to keep vital services in this country running and Sars must be fixed – quickly.
Columns
Jaundiced Eye – Pain for Bain at Sars inquiry
Look out for the Bain team on television when they testify next week. They’ll be the guys in sharp suits and designer balaclavas.
Columns
Oom Wes, the Olympian and the surgeon
This week I witnessed how sport can inspire people, at the opening of former picture editor of The Citizen, Wessel Oosthuizen’s exhibition.
Editorials
Confront the reality that racism is far from dead and buried
Someone like Catzavelos would never have grown into the public racist he has were it not for the ‘enablers’ around him in his community.
Editorials
Health minister must take blame for babies dying
Disgruntled staff warned months ago about the intolerable conditions in various wards there.
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