Ramaphosa’s call for a new social compact will fall on deaf ears unless there are some fundamental changes to the way in which the pandemic is being managed.
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The policy and law applying to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa is largely progressive. But, in practice, they continue to endure hardship and unfair treatment by officials.
The social impacts of the coronavirus will leave a legacy long after the virus itself.
It remains to be seen whether the former rebel commander and national assembly speaker will accept his situation or fight to capture the presidency.
It is rare for a post-authoritarian society to get two chances to reconcile. This may be just that, for white South Africans in particular.
During epidemics, the measures taken to protect populations and to keep health systems afloat leave women and girls vulnerable to violence.
South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
The loss of livelihoods flowing from the efforts to combat the pandemic highlights the dearth of social protection measures on the continent.
Safe rural migration programmes are not a substitute for formal social protection. But they could buy governments some time.
Goldberg was the youngest Rivonia triallist. Segregated prisons meant he was sent to Pretoria, while his fellow accused were incarcerated on Robben Island.
Economic distress was the norm for many before the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic is an opportunity to provide an economically secure future for all.
Power is visibly draining away from Tom Thabane. But, even at 80 years old, he remains a wily operator, and seems determined to cause maximum trouble to secure his immunity from prosecution.
For the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994, citizens have had to accept stringent restrictions on their normal civil liberties.
The book is set to heighten the debate about the future of the party, whose dominance has been in decline since 2009.
Households headed by the elderly are likely to be particularly vulnerable in the COVID-19 pandemic.
We’d all love to know more about our neighbours – from COVID-19 data, census data and other official data sources – but we shouldn’t.
Borders in southern Africa – as on the entire continent – were arbitrarily imposed by former colonial powers, and aren’t respected.
Most of the accused in criminal cases in South Africa would not be able to understand the record of their court proceedings.
Unlike in wealthy nations, lockdowns are simply impossible in overcrowded conditions with no sanitation and high levels of poverty.
It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
Some of the false claims about coronavirus may be harmless. But others can be potentially dangerous.
Instead of seeking to protect our health and stop the coronavirus epidemic by instituting totalitarian surveillance regimes, we should rather focus on empowering citizens.
The election of Port Elizabeth’s first black mayor in 1995 signalled that the democratic change that had started in 1994 was irreversible. But problems lay ahead.
A readable and important new book on the struggle for justice in South Africa’s Oukasie township does not go far enough to question the feasibility of grassroots resistance.
Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it, so that the months and years blend into each other.