Justice Malala is an award-winning journalist, TV host, political commentator and newspaper columnist. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times and Financial Mail, among others, and is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa.
SA must fight back against barbaric, dehumanising crime
OpinionYou know your country is broken when the most outrageous, painful, and barbaric acts take place and we all murmur a few ...
We cannot build a country without human dignity, honesty and compassion
OpinionThe greatest tragedy of this election is that we are bombarded with promises of what politicians claim they will do for ...
What lies behind Zuma’s ‘Freedom Day coup’?
OpinionWhat does the “Freedom Day coup” — in which former SA president Jacob Zuma overthrew and expelled the MK Party’s ...
Why aren't young South Africans out on the streets, demanding change?
OpinionAs we edge closer to April 27 and the celebration of our 30-year-old democracy, one question obsesses me.
Zuma’s going to kill the spineless ANC
OpinionThere is one thing you can say about the ANC without fear of contradiction: these guys don’t listen.
What did we fight for again?
OpinionIn late 1989 I joined a group of students on a trip from Cape Town to what was then the Transkei homeland, now part of ...
Forget committee and face up to rot in KZN
OpinionDon’t get me wrong. I like peace. I really, really, like peace. The outbreak of peace anywhere, but particularly in the ...
Our choices are diminishing, despite the plethora of parties
OpinionIt is a truly extraordinary thing that 2024 offers us so many more parties and candidates to elect from, and yet ...
State capture crew beating the door down to get back in
OpinionThe state capture practitioners of the 2010s never died. They merely retreated. Now, they are regrouping, organising in ...
Government wants to control private healthcare — and then break it
OpinionWe are our own worst enemies. Instead of celebrating excellence, we embrace mediocrity and do our best to spread it ...