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It is an utter disgrace that a country like ours can’t detect crime that is planned or spiraling out of control around townships suburbs. Everyday when we wake up, an ATM at a filling station is bombed. Most of our filling stations have no ATMs now and that forces us the township dwellers to walk long distances to the malls to withdraw our cash.

The SABC, as a public national broadcaster, please interview all political parties without fear, favour or partiality.

The cadre deployment discourse has shifted the focus from the bone of contention – deploying cadres to important public positions they neither have qualifications for, nor experience, leading to very serious problems of service delivery, to a general perception that it is a bad policy.

As a concerned South African in a democratic country, I think I have a right to voice my opinion. How much of the budget is the Treasury putting aside for the never-ending wars in African countries?

On January 28, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger decided to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas).

In this rapidly changing world, there are moments when one feels like an alien on a foreign planet.

If only we could look at each other without the filters of race, colour, politics, religion, or personal preferences.

A pupil allegedly shot a principal at a school in Germiston on Friday. Apparently, the child used a gun that belonged to one of his parents. So, he had stolen it.

The DA has gone to a lot of trouble to give us its rescue plan in broad brush strokes. We have heard this kind of positive rhetoric from the ANC and other parties, making promises that are never delivered.

Many countries must be wondering what is wrong with South Africans. Our biggest problem is that we don't learn from the past or from countries that gained independence from colonialism ages ago.