IntroductionI sit here as an outsider to this Transatlantic Bridge Conversation where my continent of Africa with a long border with the Atlantic Ocean, and as the cradle of humanity, has been...

Eskom is quietly running a new form of structural inequity that disrupts the lives of the majority of citizens in townships and informal settlements. It is called load reduction, which leaves the...

https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/columnists/mamphela-ramphele/mamphela-ramphele-public-accountability-lessons-for-mzansi-from-france-20250402 Today Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader of...

The line of questioning by advocate Musa Sikhakhane suggesting that Andiswa Mengo enjoyed the harassment and played along with it, is testimony to the unreconstructed patriarchal attitudes that...

The ANC has over 30 years dismally failed to execute the fundamental promise of our freedom struggle – land reform and restitution. This is a crime against the humanity of countless communities who...

The recently released Report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water  on 17/10/2024, offers us an opportunity to find our way back to the proud era of the first post-apartheid administra...

Keynote Address at the SAMEA Conference, Johannesburg Thank you for the honour of your invitation to join you in your deliberations and celebration of the work you do. You are the rear-view mirror...

Ian Fuhr has authored an important book: The Human Bridge – Racial Healing in South Africa. The book focuses on the major fault lines of our society – the legacy of colonial conquest and use of...

Proposed cuts in the budgets of essential services portfolios, such as education, health and social welfare, will hurt poor people the most, writes Mamphela Ramphele.

Memorial Lecture at Rhodes UniversityThe life and times of a giant such as Reverend Dr. Theocritus Simon Ndziweni Gqubule have much to teach us.  Kuthiwa: iNyati ibuzwa kwabaphambili – wisdom is...

Congratulations Mr President on your decision to courageously fulfil the mandate given to you as the President of our Constitutional Democracy.  You listened to the voice of the people of South...