Zukiswa Pikoli

The suffering is symptomatic of an uncaring system of food producers whose allegiance is not to the wellbeing of the people who consume their food but to profits for their shareholders.

Our political parties are weak in terms of their political ideology and education, and stuck in a leadership vacuum that is allowing a damaging narrative to persist: that voters exist to keep them in power.

There is something compelling and inspiring about people who have travelled a courageous and conscious journey to where they now find themselves in life.

While an additional year of education is necessary, doing this without an emphasis on parental and home teaching to supplement it would be an incomplete solution.

The judiciary was the last line of defence during the years of state institution plunder and incapacitation, with Zuma at its centre, so it is all the more suspicious that the MK party's candidate to the JSC is John Hlophe.

Some may see the Kolisi’s relationship as a failure, but I have long stopped looking at life and how it sometimes unfolds through the restrictive binary lens of either ‘success’ or ‘failure’. Life is far more robust and textured than that.

Having studied the various leaders I have worked with, a trait that sticks out is that of having an abundance mindset as opposed to a scarcity mindset. The former is the belief that there are enough resources in the world for everyone, and the latter is the belief that there are limited resources that should be hoarded by a few.

US election, women's reproductive rights and alarming return to conservatism

In the middle of a mounting water crisis, the inconvenient truth being overlooked is that water is political. And, as usual, it is the most vulnerable who suffer.

We are the sum total of our experiences, and we have a right to hold on to our identities, and to not be told by society what or who you should be identifying as.