Mail & Guardian

To The Class Of 2026 ↗

Inspired by Mary Schmich's famous sunscreen essay, Shaun Read offers an honest, grounded commencement speech for the Class of 2026 on success, failure and staying human.

South African businesses cannot keep adapting to governance failure ↗

South African businesses have adapted to state failure and corruption for years, but continuous resilience cannot replace real institutional accountability and economic reform.

People feeding Africa's cities have no say in how food is governed ↗

Informal traders and spaza shop owners supply most of the food eaten by poor urban households across Africa, yet they remain excluded from crucial food security policymaking.

The UN wants reform — but who will surrender power? ↗

World leaders acknowledge the United Nations must adapt to 21st-century realities, but the permanent members of the Security Council remain deeply divided on accountability, funding, and who surrenders power.

Standard Bank faces greenwashing complaint over EACOP financing ↗

Fossil Free South Africa and the StopEACOP Coalition have filed a greenwashing complaint against Standard Bank with the Advertising Regulatory Board, challenging its sustainability claims amid funding for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

Climate change puts SA’s young and old at greater risk from extreme heat