It is a modern epidemic packaged in sleek, colourful plastic, hidden easily inside pockets and school blazers. Known colloquially on the streets and in school yards as choef, vapes have rapidly transformed from an adult smoking-cessation tool into a health…

South Africa’s hard-won stability faces a quiet, systematic erosion driven by toxic disinformation. Thirty-two years after apartheid fell, propaganda campaigns continue to exploit historical wounds, generating deep domestic fractures.  This destabilisation does not stop at our borders; modern disinformation networks…

Every month-end, the streets of Windhoek witness a familiar, sobering parade. Bakkies and moving trucks, piled high with mattresses, boxes and refrigerators navigate from one suburb to another. While this relentless migration has created a booming local logistics industry, it…

A catastrophe is silently unfolding behind our school gates. Crime syndicates have found a lucrative, vulnerable demographic to fuel their operations: our children. School pupils have become the primary targets for drug recruitment, transformation into street-level dealers, and mules for…