Before We Share the Lie
The IEC’s new platform partnership raises a question that reaches into every family WhatsApp group: what does truthfulness cost us?
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South Africa
Questions emerging from the country’s public life.
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What a Garden Knows About Loving a Neighbour
Young gardeners in Masiphumelele offer a concrete occasion to consider the patient, practical work of feeding a neighbour.
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Who Gets the Breakthrough?
A breakthrough is not complete when a vaccine works. It must reach the people who need it.
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After the Count, Who Changes?
The count is not the work. It tells us where the work must begin.
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Can Truth Arrive Fifty Years Late?
Delay does not make truth unnecessary. It makes telling it more costly.
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Editorial draftWhen a Child Dies, Who Owns the Story?
A family’s silence is not a gap the crowd is entitled to fill.
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Editorial draftWhat Does Work Mean When Work Is Missing?
A person’s worth is not granted by a payslip—but love cannot use that truth to ignore an empty one.
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Editorial draftCan Fear of Scarcity Cancel the Stranger?
The state may enforce a border. The crowd may not erase a person.
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Editorial draftWhen Power Forgets Its Purpose
The first test of power is not whether it can win, but whom it is willing to carry.
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Editorial draftWhat If Our Anger Is Telling the Truth—and Still Leading Us Astray?
Anger can name a wound clearly and still teach the wounded to wound.
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