Makhudu Sefara Editor: TimesLIVE

Makhudu Sefara is deputy editor of the Sunday Times and editor of TimesLIVE. He has previously also served as editor of the Sunday World, The Star and the Sunday Independent newspapers.

Makhudu Sefara Editor: TimesLIVE
MAKHUDU SEFARA | Bordering on madness: why do we fight over lines in the sand?

The Ukraine conflict shows how a line on a map, separating people of the same culture and language, can start a war

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | Cash for votes is the real reason for the ANC’s slow, painful ...

Attempts to reform the ANC are doomed to failure unless the practice of buying votes for top positions is ended, writes Makhudu Sefara.

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | 10GB of free data will be nice, but let’s also sort out bucket ...

The UN says data has become a fundamental human right, but there are many other things needed for human dignity

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | Zondo dropped the ball on Fraser and his secrets about state ...

The work of the Zondo commission seems incomplete without access to the top secret files Fraser referred to, and Fraser’s responses to interrogation, ...

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | The court of politics will decide who the next chief justice is

Favoured candidates Mlambo and Zondo come with baggage that is politically inconvenient for Ramaphosa

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | Fifa boss’s remarks were wrong, but Africa must stop scoring ...

Africans can throw shade and insults at bigots in the world, but we have a responsibility to ourselves

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | Sisulu signs up for a magical mystery tour promising the ...

Ramaphosa must fire Sisulu and demonstrate to the rest of the ANC that being a victim may have worked for the Nkandla crooner but will not work for ...

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | This is how xenophobic voters turn politicians into callous ...

Here are four issues that need our attention after this week’s events

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | Sense and sensitivities: how SA has become a sensitive nation

Yes Lindiwe Sisulu is inarticulately advertising for the ANC leadership but she raises relevant issues

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MAKHUDU SEFARA | In the absence of the great, the best we have is far from good

If it is injustices that drives many to become the exalted we celebrate today, why is it that, with so many challenges in our land, we seem numbed ...