Justice Malala is an award-winning journalist, TV host, political commentator and newspaper columnist. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times and Financial Mail, among others, and is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa.
The week that could either make or break SA
OpinionThis is the week. This is the week that will tell us, conclusively, what we are dealing with in SA.
GNU’s ‘management by crisis’ shows disrespect and lack of leadership
OpinionEvery few weeks since June 2024, when the Government of National Unity was birthed, the country goes into crisis.
Tatane murder marked democratic SA’s loss of innocence
OpinionWhen SA celebrates Human Rights Day, I don’t think about the Sharpeville Massacre that took place on March 21 1960. I ...
Traipsing around Turin as scholars left high and dry
OpinionPlease don’t tell me that SA has no money. Or that it is a poor country. Or that it needs to increase the rate of VAT ...
Ramaphosa’s task team on Joburg another pointless exercise
OpinionEvery so often we must call things by their real names to illustrate just how much trouble we are in.
Zelensky’s Oval Office dressing-down mirrors Trump’s targeting of SA
OpinionThey are not dancing in the streets in Moscow. Yet.
Budget fiasco made SA look like amateurs
OpinionCast your mind back to former finance minister Trevor Manuel on any Budget Day throughout the 2000s.
Love him or hate him, SA’s leaders can learn from Donald Trump
OpinionThe 27-day-old presidency of Donald J Trump in the US illustrates just how a political leader who has a clear agenda ...
What will Musk, Trump unleash on SA next?
OpinionTo understand what SA’s relationship with the US looks like, you must understand the Resolute desk. And Elon Musk.
New GNU rules could create bigger headache for ANC
OpinionIt seems to me that the ANC does not want to govern, does not want to make people’s lives better and does not even want ...