Dear Fellow South African, If a nation’s character can be judged by how it treats women and children, then we are falling desperately short. A week before the launch of the annual 16 Days of…
Government Opinion Pieces
By Phumla Williams
THE socio-economic success of Africa depends on the commitment of African countries to invest significantly in the development of their infrastructure. South…
Dear Fellow South African, If a nation’s character can be judged by how it treats women and children, then we are falling desperately short. A week before the launch of the annual 16 Days of…
Dear Fellow South African,
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic has tested our resolve as a nation and united us as a people, it has also illustrated once more that community-based and civil…
Dear Fellow South African, Normally, this is the time of year when we bring together investors from across the country and around the world for the annual South Africa Investment Conference. We…
Dear Fellow South African,
As South Africans went to the polls yesterday to elect our local government representatives, delegates from across the world were gathering in Glasgow, Scotland…
Dear Fellow South African,
In exactly one week from today, South Africans will go to the polls to elect their local representatives.
These elections are an opportunity for people to…
Dear Fellow South African,
The launch of the second phase of the Presidential Employment Stimulus this past week represents great progress in our quest to create job opportunities for…
Dear Fellow South African,
It is no exaggeration to say that the world is facing a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions.
The latest report from the world’s leading climate…
Dear Fellow South African,
If we are to achieve meaningful equality between men and women, which is one of the principal aims of our Constitution, we need to ensure the full and equal…
Dear Fellow South African, The revelation in Parliament that thousands of public servants have been illegally receiving social grants every month shows we still have a long way to go towards…
Dear Fellow South African, We have just finished the final voter registration weekend ahead of the local government elections on 1 November. As I met with residents in parts of Gauteng and…
Dear Fellow South African, A year before the first democratic elections, President Nelson Mandela wrote an article in Foreign Policy magazine on the new South Africa’s future foreign policy. …
Dear Fellow South African, Over the course of time, public servants in our country have come to be in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. We have become too used to stories of civil servants…
Dear Fellow South African,
Over the course of the three years since the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture started its work, we have heard of the lengths to which the perpetrators of…
By Phumla Williams
While the vaccination rollout target is far from being where it is envisaged, the government remains steadfast in forging ahead with its communication initiatives to…
Dear Fellow South African, Today, I want to speak to the young people of South Africa. Young people are turning out in impressive numbers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This fills me with great…
Dear Fellow South African, Last week marked the end of the scheduled hearings of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, more than 1,000 days after the first witness testimony was…
Dear Fellow South African, Today we observe Women’s Day. In reflecting on the historic march of nearly 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in 1956 we recall that as much as it was a protest…
Were Nelson Mandela alive today, having been born into a life of struggle that was given momentum by global solidarity, he would most certainly urge us as humanity to rise together in solidarity…
