Hypocrisy rules as politicians jostle for power in our cities
This week the seismic tremors measured north of nine on [...]
With friends like these, the DA certainly doesn’t need enemies
Over 30 years ago when I first arrived in parliament, [...]
FW deserves remembrance
FW de Klerk’s death last week saw an explosion of [...]
Last apartheid president, but first to read the writing on the wall
FW de Klerk shaped many of the country's recent political [...]
Fasten your seatbelts, SA. It’s going to be a bumpy post-ANC ride
Alongside the fading light of Eskom, the refulgent blaze of [...]
Cyril’s credit may prove on Monday to have been flushed away
Back in 1970, in the whites-only general election, the United [...]
SA won’t prosper while it bends its knee to Cliff-hanging cancel culture
With the decision of Cricket SA to force all Protea [...]
It’s a pity the DA posters have overshadowed the real election issues
“You cannot fatten a pig on market day.” This adage [...]
ANC and DA keep expecting milch cows to deliver for largesse
A milch cow is defined by the Collins English dictionary [...]
Political promises are the pits, and the ANC’s usually end up down the toilet
There were symbols aplenty, and some ghosts from glories past, [...]
Reasons for the ANC’s continuing failure to think
Why do governments pursue policies contrary to their own interests? [...]
It’s a sad indictment on the ANC that it couldn’t get a quorum for its own bill
Last Thursday, as my column, “Do the ANC’s small disasters signal [...]
Do the ANC’s small disasters signal the large collapse?
Schadenfreude — taking pleasure in the misery of another — [...]
The JSC is shaking the foundations on which it was built
A millennium or so ago, sometime between the first and [...]
Punch-drunk public runs out of faith in its leaders
Cascading corruption, sky-high unemployment, and state incompetence. This daily diet [...]
Was Biden weak or is he doing a Ramaphosa and playing the long game?
Last Thursday, while driving in the English countryside, various authoritative [...]
Beijing’s mood-souring tech clampdown shows power of totalitarian state
There are many reasons to mourn the absence from the [...]
SA should insist the UK changes its ludicrous Covid travel curbs
The Venn diagram, where public health imperatives and political needs [...]
If we can’t have a GNU, let’s have a GOAT
Perhaps only a tragedian playwright of ancient Greece can do [...]
Public trust gone: look what happened while Cyril played his ‘long game’
Prof Harry Hindsight and the School of Post-Event Rationalisations have [...]
Power of the courts prevail against SA’s once-most-powerful citizen
“This is the way the world ends”, TS Eliot wrote [...]
Stop trying to hide your failings with euphemisms, weasels
This week’s standoff in Nkandla will tell us a lot [...]