Some of the opinions and analyses in the Voices section this week:
The gift and the curse of black excellence
Perhaps as black people we expect so much from each other that we find it natural to bash one another when we feel that we have been let down, writes Lucky Mokabane.
Make good on your mandate and act decisively, Mr President
Mandla Isaacs tells President Cyril Ramaphosa that he will never have more political capital than he does today. “You are in charge. Tough decisions have been deferred for too long. You will not be able to govern by consensus.”
Eskom and the (non)blinking traffic lights
My colleagues pack up their laptops and announce their intention to leave. Then they don’t go – they fear the traffic as if it’s the nice circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno, writes Gayle Edmunds.
We need to talk about power
By genuinely empowering South Africans politically and economically, and making the tough but necessary choices, the venal and peacetime revolutionaries – emboldened their social media driven valour- would be severely neutered, writes Tebogo Khaas.
Colleges need curriculum reform
Stanely Ncobela argues that the reform of technical and vocational training colleges is long overdue. The renewal and modernisation of these colleges cannot be further delayed. Nor can it be left to chance.
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