Ismail Lagardien Waving wads of cash as inducement to sell homes and heritage in the Bo-Kaap 4 min 12 6 June 2025
Ismail Lagardien Vision 2030 in focus: The National Development Plan’s aspirations and harsh realities ahead 5 min 0 29 May 2025
Ismail Lagardien Afrikaner refugees may be too embarrassed to admit they had it good in South Africa 5 min 2 23 May 2025
Ismail Lagardien We must look to South Africa’s past to understand the lawlessness and violence of today 6 min 4 15 May 2025
Ismail Lagardien Anger has been removed from how we respond to the world around us 5 min 1 29 April 2025
Ismail Lagardien Beyond the lens: The normalisation of horror in Sudanese war imagery 6 min 1 23 April 2025
Ismail Lagardien When ‘comment is free, but facts are sacred’ becomes ‘the best journalism that money can buy’ 6 min 1 15 April 2025
Ismail Lagardien Probing the deeper causes of Johannesburg as a decaying, runaway city 6 min 3 3 April 2025
Ismail Lagardien Johannesburg: The slow death of a city that may have outlived its purpose 6 min 3 12 March 2025
Ismail Lagardien We know more about the cosmos than we do about our oceans and ocean beds 7 min 2 5 March 2025
Ismail Lagardien The Old Volksraad Mense™ and their curious bromance with Trump amid fears of genocide 6 min 0 26 February 2025
Ismail Lagardien The ‘bushies’ creative mélange of Afrikaans in the coloured townships of the old Transvaal 5 min 2 19 February 2025
Ismail Lagardien Sona yet sofa — the urgent need for visionary leadership post Ramaphosa 5 min 0 11 February 2025
Ismail Lagardien Propaganda is not spread just by officials, journalists also play a role 8 min 11 28 January 2025
Ismail Lagardien Ad hominem attacks on women journalists are pernicious, dangerous and intellectually lazy 6 min 12 20 January 2025
Ismail Lagardien My search for Voltaire's eternal optimist Dr Pangloss is finally bearing fruit 4 min 0 15 January 2025
Ismail Lagardien It is rarely a good year to be a woman — no questions allowed 4 min 15 10 December 2024
Ismail Lagardien How vested interests shape South Africans' perceptions of equality and justice 5 min 22 4 December 2024
Ismail Lagardien Julius Malema and his Wild Bunch are shuffling deckchairs on the EFF Titanic 5 min 10 27 November 2024
Ismail Lagardien There is nothing emancipatory about the EFF/MK progressive caucus 5 min 3 19 November 2024
