Treating drug users as criminals is the last thing Cape Town needs
A new approach to criminalisation could end the drug wars on the Cape Flats.
It’s not known exactly how many gangs there are in South Africa’s Western Cape province, but gang membership has been estimated at more than 100,000. Almost all these gangs, most concentrated in Cape Town, make the bulk of their money from procuring and selling illegal leisure drugs such as tik (crystal methamphetimine), heroin, nyaope (a street drug that mixes several illicit drugs) and dagga (marijuana).
Being employed in SA does not guarantee eradicating poverty
For some workers, employment no longer guarantees significant poverty reduction, and remain poor because wages are too low to lift them and their families out of poverty.
Is SA academia still racist?
The major issue is why this kind of research was being produced 25 years after the end of apartheid.
Factionalism and corruption remain the biggest threats to the ANC’s future
In the face of its smallest victory to date, Ramaphosa must make changes or they will go the way of other liberation movements.
How EFF has merged militarism and luxury styling to brand its socialism
The EFF’s militarised aesthetic is more than a sideshow. It forms a key part of its spectacle-oriented brand of politics.
The smaller parties are looking ever more irrelevant
Many people believe President Cyril Ramaphosa’s New Dawn will be given a boost by a dominant electoral victory.
Freedom Day in SA – a reminder of unfinished business
As South Africa marks 25 years of freedom, many citizens have to contend with the harsh reality that they can’t eat democracy.
Why I will shut down illegal foreign-owned shops if I become premier
Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie says government should be given the bulk of the blame for not properly regulating the movement and activities of foreign nationals.
How SA corruption goes far beyond just Zuma and the Guptas
The media, NGOs and academic circles have wrongly classified our recent past as a battle between the good guys and the bad guys.
Why a guaranteed jobs scheme in South Africa would pay for itself
Evidence from countries such as Argentina and India suggest that guaranteed employment policies have immediate, positive benefits.
Ramaphosa is running the country, yes. But he’s not running the ANC
Indications are that even an ANC victory at the polls is unlikely to reverse the party’s decline in popular support.
Fantasy that Mnangagwa would fix Zimbabwe now fully exposed
The latest events are happening in the context of years of economic crisis, and the government’s months-long legitimacy crisis.
What the return of Gbagbo could mean for Ivory Coast’s 2020 election
His return could make him a larger than life figure ahead of elections.
An SA referendum on land reform would be a dangerous proposal
We would do well to learn from the lessons of Brexit.
What’s gone wrong with the ANC 107 years later
A divided economy, a middle class that wants no part of it and decimated youth leadership. It’s a lot to try to turn around.
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