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Justice Malala is an award-winning journalist, TV host, political commentator and newspaper columnist. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times and Financial Mail, among others, and is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa.
National coalition sparks hope amid local government chaos
If there is anything elections in the 2000s have taught us, it is this: few of us can claim to have elected a leader we did not know.
Deploying the army may gain Ramaphosa the applause of populist and performative politicians but will not improve the crime situation
There is perhaps no sphere in which the ANC has failed more spectacularly than in the education of black children, writes Malala
President Cyril Ramaphosa is urged to assert control over military chiefs
SA needs to face up to some uncomfortable truths and set priorities if it’s to survive the global turmoil, writes Justice Malala
Well, that was the 2025 political year, that was. I won’t miss it, and neither should any of us. It was a year in which SA’s accretion of bad habits reached their zenith.
The shock and horror expressed by SA’s leaders at news of the murder of Marius “Vlam” van der Merwe — the security company owner who testified at the Madlanga inquiry into corruption in the justice cluster — on Friday illustrates just how…
On Wednesday last week, US President Donald Trump announced that SA would be barred from attending the next G20 summit in Miami in 2026. It is an extraordinary yet predictably irrational decision from the Trump administration.
If the minister can make such errors of judgment with just this one man, how many other blunders has he made? Mchunu is a national security risk, writes Malala
The ongoing Madlanga commission and parliament’s ad hoc committee hearings into police malfeasance continue to underline that SA’s original state capturers have multiplied into a bigger, more sophisticated and far more dangerous animal.
Twenty-three months after Jacob Zuma announced himself as a member of a new political formation called the MK Party, the jokes about and inside the entity don’t stop writing themselves.
People need to go to jail.
Watching two of our former police ministers, Bheki Cele and Senzo Mchunu, obfuscating and making light of consorting with criminals in parliament last week made one realise this is a country which has handed a grenade to a baby.
No matter how much South Africans may want to pretend that the SA Football Association (SAFA) president is a rogue, the truth is that he is a phenomenon that should neither surprise nor drive us to anger.
