Conversations

While the ANC national executive committee (NEC) discussed some important matters over the weekend, it also listened to complaints about the social

Like so many people, I have either had to apologise for causing harm or had to receive an apology for harm perpetrated against me. I remember how I

“Nie dieu nie maitre!” a slogan first coined and popularized by a French socialist by the name Louis Auguste Blanqui in 1880, which literally transl

Over the course of the next few days and weeks, many South Africans of faith will join others across the world in important religious observances. M

South Africans don’t give much thought to FW de Klerk these days. Like Mikhail Gorbachev, his fellow Nobel peace laureate, the last apartheid presid

As South Africans celebrate 27 years of Human Rights Day, we remember the 69 people killed in Sharpeville on March 21, 1960, by apartheid-era police

April 27, 1994 heralded the beginning of a new dawn in South Africa. Decades of white minority rule entrenched with apartheid’s racial segregation l

If we use Madiba’s haunting lament as a yardstick that “freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression”,

Steinhoff must sit on two equally shameful horns of a dilemma. The company made around R30 million available for a forensic investigation into itsel

In the last few months, we have had to bid a sad farewell to two of our country’s most respected traditional monarchs. This week, the Zulu people