OPINION

Demonstrators on the Römerberg in Frankfurt, Germany, show their solidarity with the anti-racism protests in the US. Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images Post a blackout image, hashtag to your heart’s content, just don’t forget to give some of that same empathy, support, and attention to your own backyard first, writes Charlene Naidoo. By now…

American civil society has turned on Donald Trump just as South Africans turned on Jacob Zuma. It was for the same reason: people concluded the president endangers a constitution that means nothing to him, and uses the presidency purely for self-interest. It happened over a walk across the park.From the White House to St John's…

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS) President Ramaphosa’s speeches are being stuffed with Latinate abstracts and circumlocutions. Professor Ian Glenn asks if too many speech cooks are spoiling this broth.How good or bad have President Ramaphosa’s speeches during the Covid-19 pandemic been? Most people liked his first speech and compared him and his response favourably to other…

Fumigation of a school in preparation for opening under Level 3 lockdown. For pupils, especially matrics, the current school year has certainly had its challenges owing to the coronavirus pandemic.Schools are scheduled to reopen on Monday.Pupil Brad Gottschalk says the history books will definitely remember the 2020 matrics as having one of the hardest years to finish…

Stellenbosch University campus Photo: Facebook/Stellenbosch University This is the third letter of encouragement to students by Lizette Rabe, professor at Stellenbosch University (SU) and academic principal of the postgraduate cluster consisting of residences and private student accommodation called Senior Living Spaces (SLS) at SU. It will resonate with all students, wherever they currently are, now…