Politics

Data on family structure, household employment, social grants, hunger, reading, and mathematics show the conditions in which South Africa’s children are raised. 

Columns

AfriForum; when Steve Biko helped the Afrikaners; how a people lose everything; it is irrelevant whether you’re oppressed; why blacks had to stop worrying about what the whites were doing; we were all enslaved once; theories of trauma; how the whites killed Biko but the ANC destroyed black self-belief; why the Afrikaner right dislikes Trump’s offer; the internal and external attacks on AfriForum; South Africa is one big conservative melting pot; the laager or integration – what should the Afrikaners now do; The Common Sense could have this all wrong.

Columns

Wandile Sihlobo writes on the risks facing South African agriculture for the rest of 2026.

Politics

The suspension of city manager Johann Mettler is a move in the contest between South Africa's two Governments of National Unity, and a demonstration of what the rogue version does when it consolidates power.

Sport

Properly understanding South Africa requires understanding the contradiction between Bokkieweek this past week and the Springbok line-up against Scotland this past Saturday.