Columnists
OPINION: Why Highlands Park can lift the MTN8 trophy against SuperSport United
SOWETO – With this year’s eagerly anticipated MTN8 final set to be decided and new champions waiting to be crowned...
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Mugabe is dead, but old men still run southern Africa
The death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe (95) saw another of the first-generation leaders of newly independent southern African states leave...
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Robert Mugabe: as divisive in death as he was in life
Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, has died. Mugabe was 95, and had been struggling with ill health for some...
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Ethiopia government can no-longer protect its citizens
Meskerem is the first month in Ethiopia’s unique 13-month calendar. Ethiopia celebrates its New Year on the first day of Meskerem, which falls...
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Xenophobia: time for cool heads to prevail in Nigeria and South Africa
Nigeria also boycotted the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Cape Town. More critical was the temporary closure of...
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OPINION: Who will win South Africa’s premier league?
JOHANNESBURG - With the 2019/20 South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) season in full swing after a month of action,...
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South Africa is close to ‘junk status’ from all three rating agencies. What could follow?
By Misheck Mutize & Sean Gossel The rating agency Fitch recently revised the outlook on South Africa’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default...
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South African taxpayers will bear the brunt of National Health Insurance
By Dr Lee-Ann Steenkamp South Africa’s government recently released the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill whose aim is to extend universal...
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How African footballers who play in Europe spend their money
African footballers – like other players from developing countries – invariably earn sums of money far greater than their contemporaries...
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The middle-class dream is moving beyond millennials’ reach
Do you feel like your cost of living is rising? If so, you’re not alone. Years of low income growth...
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