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A Child’s Plea to the Adults Who Hold Her Future in Their Hands This editorial is written in the imagined voice of My Bundle of Love, X!ko — a voice that may also belong to millions of children who cannot yet fully express their fears about the world we are preparing for them. I do not own a business. I do not own a media platform. I do not control a government, an army, a bank or a machine powerful enough to watch millions of people. I own a backpack with a broken zipper. I

Life Only Lends Us What Time Will Eventually Take Back - Human Beings Live as though Permanence were a Promise... We build walls, register properties, accumulate money, guard relationships, pursue titles and place our names on possessions. We say *my land, my house, my car, my spouse, my children, my money, my body, my position*—and, without noticing it, the language of possession becomes the architecture of our lives. Yet beneath all the documents, ceremonies and declaration

The world did not discover Black inferiority. It manufactured Black dispossession, photographed the wreckage, edited out the architect — and presented the image as proof of who Africans are. There is a question the so-called civilized world has avoided for centuries: How do you create the conditions of a people’s suffering, profit from those conditions, control the story told about them — and then look into the mirror and call yourself good? How do you seize land and then cal

Governments were created to serve humanity—not to rule over it, divide it or wage violence in its name. The time has come for ordinary people to awaken, unite and peacefully reclaim the power that has always belonged to them. Before we are Black, white, Chinese, Indian, Arab or anything else, we are human. Before nationality, language, religion, political party or social class, there is a person who wants to live, to love and to be loved. A person who wants to raise a family

I strongly maintain that a former president may diagnose a skills crisis. He may not erase his government's role in weakening the institutions that produced skills - and then hand the bill to the unemployed. "Before you call the people unemployable, account for the institutions that were merged, closed or stripped of purpose on your watch." Former president Thabo Mbeki recently asked why millions of South Africans are unemployed and answered: "The reason they are unemployable

Africa Must Choose Strong Institutions Over Strongmen. Our continent does not lack resources, talent or vision. It lacks public power disciplined by accountability, integration and service. The next phase of African liberation must therefore be institutional, economic and civic. There is a chair in every seat of government that is larger than the person who occupies it. It may be called the presidency, the premiership, the throne, the cabinet or parliament. Whatever its name,

When Earning a Living Starts Costing Us Our Lives. Work should support a life. It should not quietly consume one. The challenge is not to reject work, but to prevent it from consuming the life it is meant to support. At 6:00 in the morning, the alarm rings. You reach for the phone before your eyes have properly opened. There are messages waiting, traffic to beat, children to prepare, a shift to start, a meeting to join, a target to chase. You tell yourself to get moving. But

We Will Not Sing Kumbaya: Remembering 90 Years of the SABC — Truth Before Celebration Fellow South Africans, As the state and the SABC celebrate 90 years since the corporation’s creation on 1 August 1936, I write to insist: commemoration must begin with truth. Broadcasting in this country was not neutral. For decades the airwaves were structured to exclude, marginalise and instrumentalise the majority of our people. African languages, music, culture and representation were si