Opinion

Imagine being paid your full salary and benefits for 18 years without doing a single day’s work. Now imagine that happening in an education system desperate for teachers.

Every year on July 31, World Ranger Day honours the men and women who dedicate their lives to protecting the world’s natural and cultural heritage.

Wise recruitment by shrewd head coach Adrian Birrell, coupled with the retention of key players, has ensured the Sunrisers Eastern Cape will once again be among the frontrunners for glory when the Betway SA20 tournament blasts off in January.

Another significant loss to the Bay brought to you by the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, this time in cahoots with Transnet.

Every week another headline asks whether artificial intelligence (AI) will replace teachers. I think we are asking the wrong question. The real question is this: Are we preparing future teachers to know when AI is right and when it is wrong?

The Eastern Cape education department’s decision to pilot an online school admissions system is a welcome step forward.

It is long overdue that the minister of police is held accountable for his continued refusal to seriously engage with calls for expanded municipal policing powers, while ordinary South Africans continue to bear the consequences of violent crime.

Municipal governance is perhaps the most sophisticated and complex arena of public leadership, yet it is frequently reduced to naive narratives, political soundbites and social media verdicts delivered from the comfort of a keyboard.

Every year, SA marks Women’s Day on August 9. For some, it has become another public holiday. For others, it is an opportunity for businesses to launch Women’s Month promotions. However, the day’s true significance deserves greater reflection.

So often we look for the grandiose, but over the past 10 years, particularly after Covid-19, city working, living and playing have changed significantly.

The migration of almost one million people from the Eastern Cape over the past decade should not be dismissed as an inevitable search for greener pastures.

It, as we understand it, is Magwenya’s job to refine the final public messaging to the media in a manner that will enable the president to come across as well-informed.

Why do thousands of South Africans dressed in All Black regalia welcome New Zealand to SA at the DHL Cape Town stadium?

While I respect every South African’s constitutional right to peacefully protest, I believe pupils should never become unintended victims of any demonstration.

A warm shaft of sunlight reached into the darkness when it emerged last week that Nelson Mandela Bay was the frontrunner to land a R2bn investment.