Steven Friedman

Though the Stellenbosch university student’s act needs to be condemned, obvious discrimination is a symptom of an ingrained hierarchical system that continues to favour white people.

There’s a limit to how much one person can spend and it falls way below what top executives are paid in South Africa. Inequality will remain until the wealthy concede this.

Hounding people born elsewhere is a form of bigotry, no less than racism or sexism. Those who believe in equal treatment for everyone should campaign against this prejudice.

Mainstream media compared South Africa’s pandemic response to European and North American countries, claiming we had done well, but African countries in fact did much better than us.

The media simply repeating what the South African Jewish Board of Deputies says is misleading. The Constitutional Court judgment is something of which our country can be proud.

Nothing in the state of the nation address signified that the president and his administration know how to win back the trust of the impoverished who feel let down by them.

Lindiwe Sisulu’s attack on the judiciary is misguided. Not once since 1994 has a government tested the Constitution’s capacity to enable change, but the courts have.

Despite much ado being made about the ‘shocking’ outcome of negotiations for positions in municipalities, nothing has changed for the majority without a voice.

Steven Friedman addresses the roots of state capture in colonialism and apartheid, showing how these same webs of corruption are active in postapartheid South Africa.

An examination of the language the party uses shows that it is echoing right-wing voices the world over in its insistence that those who point out its racism are, in fact, the real racists.