Daily DispatchDaily Dispatch

Opinion

Terry Mathie

LEAGLE EAGLE | Paid Off Your Home Loan? Here’s What You Need to Know

READER LETTER | Unchecked social media toxicity undermines nation-building efforts

Content creation, online marketing, podcasts, vodcasts and all other AI income-generation initiatives are creative ways by which most people express…

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula.
Premium

NDISAW MPOLWENI | Court battles to candidate list chaos puts Mbalula's leadership under spotlight

Amid candidate list submission failures and mounting court battles, questions arise over Fikile Mbalula's administrative effectiveness as ANC…

Matric pupils get down to writing exams.

Defining moment for matrics must be faced with courage and confidence

This week marks the beginning of the National Senior Certificate examinations. Authorities in the Eastern Cape are dreaming big, with a target of…

Bantu Mniki.
Premium

BANTU MNIKI | Fuel crisis exposes SA's energy vulnerability

Nkosi Minenkulu Joyi, head of Bhaziya Traditional Council and founder of the Nkosi Minenkulu Joyi Foundation, showcasing the R1.2-million drone and two scooters that will deliver chronic medication to hundreds of patients across his 49 villages outside Mthatha, after Bhaziya Komkhulu was officially registered as a Central Chronic Medicines Dispensing and Distribution site - becoming the first traditional residence in South Africa to be turned into a medicine pick-up point. Looking on are Health MEC Ntandokazi Capa, Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, Cogta deputy minister Prince Zolile Burns-Ncamashe, National House of Traditional and Khoisan Leaders chair Kgosi Thabo Seathlolo and King Sabata Dalindyebo mayor Nkosi Mkhanyiseli Dudumayo during the launch at Bhaziya Great Place outside Mthatha.

An innovative model for rural healthcare delivery

A pioneering rural healthcare project outside Mthatha using quad bikes and drones to deliver chronic medication serves as an example to communities…

Sonke Gender Justice campaigns against gender-based violence

THANDUXOLO ZIMBA | Male victims missing from GBV debate

The debate around gender-based violence in SA has, quite rightly, placed enormous attention on violence against women and children. The statistics…

INSIGHT | BONGIWE MAFANI | Covid-19 may be gone but the lessons learnt are still relevant

Covid-19 may increasingly feel like yesterday’s crisis. The masks have disappeared, lockdown regulations are history, and businesses have long since…

Some of the participants of the Algoa Bay Ocean Stewards protest against seismic surveys off the Eastern Cape coast are, front from left,  Amber Balchin, Millah Human, Sue Human, Ralph West, Charmaine Balchin and Derek Beeforth, and back, Kgomotso Modiselle, left, and Hilda Balchin

INSIGHT | SIYANDA KATE | Oil, gas, and the governance test facing SA

The debate over oil and gas has never been limited to the politics of energy sovereignty. However, it is also about power, sovereignty, national…

Pupils at Siyakhula public school in Stutterheim are worrird about the conditions of the their school. Picture: Sino Majangaza
Premium

Pupils deserve action to fix classrooms, not empty promises

Schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not casualties of failing infrastructure. They are meant to be places where young people should be…

Pitso Mosimane

Early days still, but Bafana showing plenty of promise

The good start of Bafana Bafana under coach Pitso Mosimane bodes well for SA's football future, with hopes of qualifying for next year’s Africa Cup…

INSIGHT | Consequences of ghost candidates, poor choices by voters

READER LETTER | What happened to the promised slipway at the Chalumna River?

I am a resident of Kayser's Beach and quite a while ago I had a good, frank and cordial conversion with an official of the department of economic…

Electronic screens display the vote count results at the Independent Electoral Commission national results centre in Pretoria in 2019.
Premium

Election pledge must go beyond words

The right to vote in SA did not come cheap. It took many years of the struggle, and some people paid the ultimate price for it. It is therefore…

ELECTIONS LOGO

NADISWA MPOLWENI | Accountability starts after the votes are counted

As local government elections approach, politicians flood communities with promises. However, the true test of leadership begins after the votes are…

READER LETTER | Results, not speeches, needed in fight against GBV

South Africans need real results, not more speeches and slogans, to combat gender-based violence and rampant crime. True safety demands professional…

Ex ANC MPL Zinzi Rabe

INSIGHT | ZINZISWA RABE | ANC's biggest crisis is failure to fix itself

As the ANC heads toward the 2026 local government elections, former Eastern Cape MPL Zinziswa Rabe examines the party's deep-rooted organizational…

Minister Ronald Lamola.

READER LETTER | Mend fences with the US before it's too late

A reader calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister Ronald Lamola to prioritize repairing diplomatic ties with the United States before the…

ANC election posters in Beach Road in Nahoon were removed this week.

READER LETTER | Communities need to insist on accountability from political parties

The Buffalo City TVET College.

KASI KONVERSATIONS | TVET colleges could be hubs of township innovation

TVET colleges have the potential to do much more than supply graduates to the job market; they can serve as dynamic hubs of innovation and…