Opinion
Local is lekker for East Cape media on Press Freedom Day
Journalism is here to stay — but regional newspapers must focus on making a difference locally, and forging an identity and improving staff skills within that paradigm.
Public needs to see action against heritage site vandals
Graves are sacred spaces that hold deep emotional significance for families and friends of the deceased. More so the final resting place of ...
LETTERS | By remembering Hani’s dedication to the struggle, we ...
April 10 marked the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Chris Hani, a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and leader of the ...
Unpaid state pensioners deserved better treatment
No answers for families two years on as Enyobeni ...
BEHIND THE NEWS | Welcoming Dispatch staff made things exciting for this nervous budding ...
Entering a newsroom as a student, with no experience in reporting, is overwhelming. Gaining work experience at the ...
The simplicity and charm of Die Plaaskind Padstal
There is nothing like a slice of toast with some butter and marmite when you are famished — or a humble pot of soup and ...
Joint effort needed to end vandalism of our schools
When pupils and staff of SEK Mqhayi High School in Mdantsane return today, they will walk into a building ransacked by ...
THE WEALTHSMITH | The two-pot retirement system post-September 1
Last week we discussed how accessible a pension fund is for someone whose funds are already invested in the scheme.
Forgetting God has left ANC intellectually wanting, as the MK logo debacle shows
Nobel Prize-winning author and poet Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974. Wondering how ...
Eking out our savings as our lives get longer
We often forget to give our retirement planning the attention it deserves and requires, and with the changes that are ...
Pondering the conversation after ‘I love you!’
From behind the gate he says with such sweet intensity: “Bru, we are not going to fight. I love you bru! Let’s go for a ...
Time for citizens to stand up and be counted
The latest crime statistics for the Eastern Cape, released on Thursday by transport & community safety MEC Xolile ...
Women’s tournament marks boxing’s much-needed return to the ring
The first boxing tournament in Scenery Park on Saturday may be low key, as it often the case with any event involving ...
For many, life of Tintswalo not even a distant dream
Tintswalo, the mythical “democracy’s child” created by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his state of the nation speech to ...
State collapse hurts the most vulnerable
EDITORIAL | The high cost of quality healthcare and its stark contrast with the appalling quality of public healthcare ...
Communities must help safeguard vital electricity infrastructure
EDITORIAL | The theft and vandalism of electricity infrastructure has reached alarming levels in SA, resulting in ...
JUSTICE MALALA | We are becoming even more of a gangster’s paradise
There is a price to be paid every time our leaders sit on their hands and fail to act decisively, vocally and openly ...
GOING THE DISTANCE — with recognition
Recognition is an important motivating factor in sport, when it is correctly apportioned.
BEHIND THE NEWS | School restoration in Mapimpi’s village provides a ray of hope
When Jim Mvabaza Senior Secondary in Twecu, Tsholomnqa was handed back to the community on Monday it symbolised ...
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