Abigail Calata

The South African Responsible Gambling Foundation (SARGF) is deeply concerned about the rise in online betting among tertiary students, who are wagering state-funded bursary allowances on betting platforms. This trend is exposing financially vulnerable students to escalating debt, anxiety, and severe gambling harm, while directly undermining public investment in higher education. While South Africa lacks exhaustive national empirical data on this emerging crisis, the warning signs from the...

The anniversary of the Enyobeni tragedy provides an opportunity for South Africans to reflect on their relationship with alcohol. Not one of the 21 youngsters who lost their lives at the Enyobeni Tavern in East London on 26 June 2022 would live to see their 21st birthdays. Twenty-one lives were cut short in the months South Africans celebrate the youth for their contribution to democracy. Seventeen of them were underage, which made those serving them the alcohol that contributed to their...

To finish what was started by the Class of ’76 fifty years ago in Soweto. This is the objective of a march taking place on Tuesday (16 June 2026) to Orlando Stadium, where veterans of the 1976 Uprising together with present-day youths plan to hand over a Manifesto to President Cyril Ramaphosa. “It is an affront to us and the youth of today that the main commemoration of the 1976 Uprising should not take place at Orlando Stadium,” says Seth Mazibuko, who helped organise the original march in...