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OPINION | ‘How hard can it be to live without water in a place set up to handle such a crisis?’

Joburger Gill Gifford visited her mom in water-scarce Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape for a week. This is how it went. GILL GIFFORD Cape Town may have dodged the Day Zero bullet, but some parts of the country have long been living with…

ROAD TO GENOCIDE? Mike Smith provides his opinion on the collective

Groupthink and conformity is the stuff of genocides

Mike Smith Issued by the National Employers Association of Soth Africa (Neasa) October 3 will probably pass in history as just a minor holiday in Germany. It is the day that Germans celebrate the reunification of East and West Germany.…

… navigating through the Covid-19 Lockdown predicament … Level 2 regulations

It does not make any sense A letter to employers from the National Employers Association of South Africa (NEASA) The recent relaxation of the current lockdown to Level 2 has created the perception that the worst part of the lockdown is…

OPINION: Stop smokers’ suffering

Smokers around the country are finding the current ban on the sale of tobacco products a travesty that could easily be resolved. Reporter, Rob Knowles, shares his opinion on the subject. The government’s lockdown is probably what is…

President Cyril Ramaphosa said South Africa can expect the total number of Covid-19 cases to pass the 50,000 mark during the course of this coming week, and it was also likely to record the 1,000th death from the devastating disease.                                                File picture. Image: Supplied

OPINION | Cyril needs to seize the Covid moment

The small window for President Cyril Ramaphosa and his finance minister Tito Mboweni to get the economic fundamentals right is fast closing. They have to pull the country back from the brink of economic disaster. The Covid-19 pandemic and…

HAPPIER TIMES: There was a time when DA leaders stood together

There are two DAs‚ and they’re heading for divorce

On Monday‚ as Herman Mashaba humped Donald Trump’s leg and Helen Zille exhumed her defence of colonialism‚ many South Africans wondered aloud if the Democratic Alliance is deliberately trying to lose votes. Certainly, the two tweets in…