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Man waving a South African flag (iStock) There is a really long way for South Africa to go and wouldn't it be great if it were a whole lot easier, writes education professor Jonathan Jansen and human rights activist Melene Rossouw. "Perhaps, but we'd be robbing ourselves of that special flavour of doing things the South African way." South Africans are world champs at complaining. We are expert pessimists and finger-pointers - but we are something else too. We are often kinder than we think... and we're really good at pulling miracles out of a hat. If you haven't had the...

Young people have become victims of PPE graft, state capture and empty state coffers

Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, and the tourism minister takes over the health portfolio. It beggars belief

Many moons ago, when COVID-19 first swept South Africa and we went into national lockdown, the evening addresses from President Cyril Ramaphosa were must-watches. When he suffered that infamous mask gaffe after delivering an address in April of last year, much of the country rallied behind him, noting how he looked like he hadn’t slept properly in weeks, and yet still had the ability to laugh at himself. Fast forward to today, which is our 434th day of living under some form of lockdown, and patience has worn thin on a number of fronts. Not just for the general public, either, with journal...

Institutional viability threatened by student debt crisis The institutional viability of South African universities is under threat from a mounting student debt crisis, leading to calls from top officials and university leaders for fundamental reform of the way in which the public higher education sector is funded. “If we increase student funding at the expense of the system, we are then shooting ourselves in the foot,” South Africa’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Blade Nzimande, told parliament on 4 May. “As we increase student funding, we should also be pushi...