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.

Tatane murder marked democratic SA’s loss of innocence

Opinion

When 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

Opinion

Please 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

Opinion

Every so often we must call things by their real names to illustrate just how much trouble we are in.

Budget fiasco made SA look like amateurs

Opinion

Cast 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

Opinion

The 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?

Opinion

To understand what SA’s relationship with the US looks like, you must understand the Resolute desk. And Elon Musk.

The hard truth about why 14 of our soldiers are now dead

Opinion

There are several reasons why President Cyril Ramaphosa was absolutely correct to refrain from getting into a shouting ...

No real care for human life in SA

Opinion

The reason SA fails in so much that it attempts to achieve is because we do not value human life in this country.

ANC, Ramaphosa present for the powerful, forsake the poor

Opinion

No-one expected President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend the inauguration of Mozambique’s new president, Daniel Chapo, in ...