Editorials

It's easy to get swept up in the endless waves of bad news that flood our media today. Open almost any news channel and you will be told about unprecedented war and violence, economic chaos, climate catastrophe, surging hate, and collapsing democracies. But that is all wrong – and life on Earth today is, in every important respect, the most wonderful it has ever been.

Politics

SACP likely to find it’s cold outside the ANC.

Economics & Policy

Major central banks are expected to keep rates unchanged as war-driven inflation limits room for policy shifts.

Columns

Three intersecting events converge to ask a tough question about the DA and its new leadership. These start with the proposed new school history curriculum, extend across the country’s farms, and end up in Cape Town.

Columns

David Ansara writes on the tendency of certain South Africans to think that anyone but ourselves are responsible for our problems.