Opinion & Analysis

THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary com­mittee’s ruling on the abandoned Hardrock versus Dy­namos match has raised more questions than answers. Rather than bringing clarity and reinforcing con­fidence in the league’s judicial processes, the PSL’s judgment appears to depart significantly from estab­lished precedent, creating uncertainty over how similar cases will be handled in future. For…

 THE tension that blanketed South Africa’s major urban centres on Tuesday was a sobering indicator of a nation at a crossroads. As thousands took to the streets in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban under the banner of movements like March and March to protest undocumented migra­tion, the underlying precarity of the post-apartheid promise was laid bare….

THE ongoing joint meeting of Sadc ministers of Health and Finance in Harare comes at a critical juncture for our region.As Sadc deputy executive secretary Angèle Makombo N’tumba rightly pointed out on Monday, the structural challenges facing Southern Africa can no longer be tackled through isolated national policies.From volatile local currencies and uneven fiscal deficits…

AS the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, fine-tunes his mid-term budget review, the timing of Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda’s weekend ad­dress in Bulawayo could not be more critical. Mudenda issued a blunt, unavoidable truth to our legislators: a national budget that fails to protect the most vulnerable is a moral and structural…