Culture

Rethinking Identity And Belonging In South Africa

South African identity is not only legal or national. It is shaped by language, culture, place, memory, and the communities where people feel they truly…

Jul 14 • Ayanda S Zulu

South Africa Must Stop Romanticising Violence

South Africa needs a new political culture; one that stops confusing militancy with courage. One that stops treating revolutionary nostalgia as a…

Jul 13 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

When Mercy Doesn’t Compound

The country is not short of decent people. What it’s short of is any structure that would let decency compound the way capital compounds.

Jul 11 • Bryan Theunissen

Teaching Students To Think, Not What To Think

The purpose of history education should not be to cultivate a particular political consciousness or identity. Rather, its purpose is to equip students…

Jul 9 • Nicholas Woode-Smith and Ayanda S Zulu

It’s Never Too Late for Letter Bombs

South Africa survives because ordinary people perform small acts of anti-collapse.

Jul 8 • RS Guest Author

Taxis Are Their Own Worst Enemy

The taxi industry has a choice. It can become a legitimate, competitive, indispensable transport sector, or it can continue behaving like a cartel with…

Jul 6 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

Abahambe and the Collapse of the Rainbow Nation

The Abahambe crisis is not just about immigration. It is about what happens when a weak state, economic desperation, and ethnic scapegoating collide.

Jun 30 • RS Guest Author

The Battle Over Speech and Belief

The Case of Arthur Vamva vs. Rhodes University. Who is allowed to police speech and belief?

Jun 9 • RS Guest Author

Forget Putting South Africans First, Put Your Children First

There is only so much schools can do to produce better outcomes. Without parents being involved, children cannot succeed.

May 5 • Mpiyakhe Dhlamini

Weight-Loss Drugs And Freedom Of Choice

Fat or thin, it is hard being human. As Thomas Sowell says: “There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs.”

Apr 15 • RS Guest Author

Beyond the Rainbow: Rethinking Nation-Building in South Africa

Rainbowism may be noble in intent, but it has failed to take root as South Africa’s unifying civic creed. It is time to rethink nation-building through…

Mar 19 • Ayanda S Zulu

The Death of Woke?

Wokeness promised compassion. Instead, it normalized conformity, hypocrisy, and division.

Mar 14 • Ilan Preskovsky

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