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Flawed: Young people are not equipped for the fourth industrial revolution and adding computers to the classroom isn’t a solution. They need to start their education at the age of three.
EDUCATION

The classroom is an ecosystem, not a one-person job

As South Africa faces rising educator resignations and high rates of burnout, building collaborative support networks and mentorship programmes is crucial to keeping teachers in…

  • Sarah Koopman
6 min read
Epicentre of the crisis: About 10 000 Malawian nationals facing xenophobia elected to be repatriated and gathered at a migration transit camp in Sherwood, Durban since last Sunday. Photo: Lyse Comins
SOUTH AFRICA

African leaders launch pushback against South Africa's anti-migrant narrative

Senior African political leaders, diplomats, lawyers, and researchers have launched a coordinated pushback against South Africa's increasingly hardline migration narrative,…

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Epicentre of the crisis: About 10 000 Malawian nationals facing xenophobia elected to be repatriated and gathered at a migration transit camp in Sherwood, Durban since last Sunday. Photos: Lyse Comins
IMMIGRATION

White foreigners arrive; Black Africans ‘flood’

Sandile Memela’s argument begins with a convenient sanitising move. The anti-migrant marches, he argues here (https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/2026-07-09-the-truth-the-missing-link-…

  • Bhekisisa Mncube
8 min read
Dependency trap: Artificial intelligence is not a borderless equaliser but a centralised engine of geopolitical stratification. Photo: Supplied
AI GOVERNANCE

Geopolitical realignment and the Global South AI divide

The international community is finalising frameworks for the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, but a stark technological cleavage has emerged. The Global North uses advanced…

  • Imran Khalid
4 min read