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state of disaster

Professor Balthazar

Opinionistas

Sona speech, 2023 edition — a shameful night of multiple failures

By Professor Balthazar

Koos Kombuis

Opinionistas

Careful what you wish for: A National State of Emergency might usher in the death of democracy

By Koos Kombuis

Daniel den Hollander

Opinionistas

Welcome to a Brave New World — liberation in a post-lockdown South Africa

By Daniel den Hollander

Patricia Pillay

Opinionistas

Cool heads needed in responding to future waves of Covid-19, not knee-jerk alcohol bans

By Patricia Pillay

Marianne Merten

Opinionistas

Executive decision-making and the Covid lockdown loop as the Constitution turns 25

By Marianne Merten

Marianne Merten

Opinionistas

From governance woes to inequality, South Africa struggled through the pandemic year

By Marianne Merten

Pam Saxby

Opinionistas

Limited live streaming of Parliament’s committee hearings leaves many South Africans in the dark

By Pam Saxby

Cilliers Brink

Opinionistas

Make a national state of disaster subject to the same procedural constraints that already apply to a state of emergency in our law

By Cilliers Brink

Opinionistas

View from Up Close: What the Covid-19 crisis reveals about SA

By Saul Musker

Opinionistas

View from Afar: Coronavirus – how to think about the unthinkable

By Saul Musker

Cyril Ramaphosa

Opinionistas

Coronavirus National State of Disaster: ‘Fortune favours the prepared mind’

By Cyril Ramaphosa