How Cyril went from secular saint to Mampara
Dominic Cummings - the controversial adviser to Boris Johnson who [...]
The clunking government fist on corona echoes Stalin’s Soviet Union
“The National Coronavirus Command Council”, which for past 10 weeks [...]
Too many Covid-19 puzzlements an uneasy resonance with pre-Nazi Germany
As South Africans endure the seventh week of home imprisonment, [...]
This is not our Mao or Pol Pot moment – there’s a pandemic to fight
Academic-turned-politician Prof Belinda Bozzoli MP recently noted that that there [...]
Virus requires extreme measures, not the extreme wittering of Malema et al
Freedom Day 2020 was the most baleful in SA’s recent history since [...]
Pandemic covers and uncovers a multitude of sins
Senator J. William Fulbright occupies a place in the political [...]
Instead of a virus national command, what SA really needs is a ‘Goat’
At the dawn of democracy SA gave birth to a [...]
The big disconnect between preparation for Covid-19 and the Credit-20 crash
A famous question was asked by British monarch Queen Elizabeth [...]
When it’s over, we want all our rights back, Cyril
In 1966, two eminent academics at the University of Natal [...]
More Cyril, please, and less of the cabinet confusion
Our world, our country, our lives, all our assumptions and [...]
SA needs a bazooka to fight the virus. Cyril offered us a pea shooter
Covid 19 has converted us all into armchair immunologists. So [...]
Getting sick from Covid-19 might help us bin political fantasies
On the issue of the widening and constriction of our [...]
As Covid-19 threatens the Trump roadshow, an anxious world watches
It is both uniquely national, even intensely parochial on any [...]
Sacrificing our future on the altar of false unity
We learnt this week that the South African minister of [...]
Next on De Klerk’s to-do list: find out how the EFF thugs got a free pass
Last November, before an international audience gathered in Cape Town, [...]
Ramaphosa is being swallowed by a widening credibility gap
In 1966, as the US escalated its involvement in the [...]
Come on Cyril! FW did it, Mantashe has just done it. You can do it too
To mark the 30th anniversary of FW de Klerk’s earth-shaking [...]
ANC replicating apartheid past
The rear-view mirror is the preferred reflector for our government. Far [...]
Despite the jokes, climate crisis is no laughing matter
SA received an icy warning of its global dip from The [...]
It would have been a false ‘New Dawn’ in Davos for Cyril
Imagine a pow wow in London this week, featuring the [...]
Well-intentioned men of zeal and the harm they do
In his famous 1928 dissenting opinion in Olmstead vs United [...]