Opinion

 Erwan Lequentrec and Francesc Pedró  African countries have worked hard to improve children’s access to basic education, but there’s still significant work to be done. Today, 32.6...

Zipporah Musau At the dawn of independence, incoming African leaders were quick to prioritize education on their development agendas. Attaining universal primary education, they maintained,...

Mosibodi Whitehead The 2018 World Cup is set to kick off in Russia on 14 of June 2018.  The focus will inevitably turn to Bafana...

Roger Southall A recent exchange on Twitter between South African TV personality Sizwe Dhlomo and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, is worthy of close examination because it...

Merethe Skårås More than 200 child soldiers have been freed from armed groups in South Sudan. The 112 boys and 95 girls, all under the age of...

Norman Mbazima What would it take to re-imagine South Africa’s education system? It starts with the basics: we must find a way to give each...

Jonathan Jansen Which is South Africa’s top university? Is it UCT or Wits? It depends who you ask, when you ask and which ranking system...

Mosibodi Whitehead Team South Africa recently returned from a successful campaign at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. The team won 37 medals: 13 gold, 11...

Gugu Nonjinge On December 16, 2017, former president Jacob Zuma announced that government would be phasing in fully subsidised higher education and training for poor...

Thato Rossouw  For black students at the University of the Free State, the word “exclusion” is probably the most life-changing word they will ever come...