The ongoing protests by bus drivers and other workers tied to the IPTS in the Nelson Mandela Bay City government of Gqeberha is the latest instalment in the series of other labour unrests taking place under coalition local governments across SA.

When Covid-19 closed classrooms I was worried about the education that students give each other. Official reports tend to emphasise the central role of the teacher in the delivery of the syllabus curriculum. Bad teachers, bad students, bad schools, bad outcomes. Good teachers, good students, good schools, good outcomes.

A 21-year-old American Air National Guard member, Jack Teixeira, has been arrested and charged for leaking highly classified documents of the US Defence Force concerning the war in Ukraine.

As we seek solutions, political parties must be mindful that people’s patience is running thin. They risk being left behind when the people begin to realise that all power is actually in their hands.

First, education is not free in SA. Second, government is disengaging from being a central role player on the major issues of human development. It has left everything in the hands of the market and the project of growing a developmental state is now long forgotten.

The thesis of “tourism attraction” has always been used on developing countries as a strategy by Western countries to maintain neo-colonial relations by sucking out the little funds they have left.

The ANC has again mastered the art of talking left and walking right.

The input by former president Thabo Mbeki at Jessie Duarte’s memorial service was timely. We are in a crisis that is being deepened by a misplaced leadership strategy and a policy regime that is decontextualised from our most pressing challenges in SA.

The legitimacy the government had at the beginning of Cyril Ramaphosa’s term is now slowly fading away. The leadership of the president does not seem to be solving our major challenges as quickly as it should, and according to our expectations.

The impact of poverty and its potential to disempower gets underestimated when we have academic conversations about such tragedies and where they occur.