Besides issues of dignity and justice, failing to implement a Basic Income Grant is fuelling a fire that will eradicate the gains we have made in the democratic era and prove difficult and expensive to extinguish.

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

How many citizens in this province experiences double standards when it comes to service delivery? How many rural municipalities sees growth in their affluent areas, and the poorer communities are left behind?

If the State is seriously looking to the small business sector to create nine million jobs and lead South Africa's socio-economic recovery, it's going to need to bring the banking sector to the party and jointly develop an enabling environment that acknowledges small businesses' struggles in a struggling economy over the past decade-and-a-half.

With nearly three decades of experience we have to admit that in its current form our housing code does not meet our Section 26 constitutional obligations to provide access to adequate housing.

We will not allow allegations requiring investigation by law to be swept under the carpet. If we don't act to stop maladministration we make ourselves guilty of complicity.

After telling Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on 22 March 2022 that PRASA had stopped paying 3000 ghost workers on its payroll last December, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula now says the ghost workers are still being paid.

As South Africa lurches into another spate of electricity failures – for which the current lot in charge of Eskom blame the previous lot, who blamed those before them – it is becoming increasingly clear that expertise is the critical intervention that is missing.

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, as the world locked down and nobody really knew where we were heading, wise people were quick to remind us that crises present fertile environments for new opportunities to seed and flourish.

The City of Cape Town has reneged on its promise to amend its by-law and exempt the Muslim Call to Prayer and Church Bells from the City's definition of noise nuisance.