It’s time the state stopped spin doctoring and started doctoring
Reading director general of government communications Phumla Williams’s defence of [...]
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Presidential sounds of silence are fuelling the fire engulfing SA GalleryPresidential sounds of silence are fuelling the fire engulfing SA
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, Elections, International Politics, John Steenhuisen, Nelson Mandela, Russian War, South African Politics, World Politics
Presidential sounds of silence are fuelling the fire engulfing SA
Workers Day, May 1 2022, offered South Africans sharply contrasting [...]
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Putin’s war has sorted the wheat from the chaff — and there’s lots of chaff GalleryPutin’s war has sorted the wheat from the chaff — and there’s lots of chaff
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, Donald Trump, EFF, Elections, International Politics, Russian War, Vladimir Putin, World Politics, Zweli Mkhize
Putin’s war has sorted the wheat from the chaff — and there’s lots of chaff
Today, barring a huge upset, Emmanuel Macron will be re-elected [...]
There’s more chance of seeing the Easter bunny than relief funds reaching victims
This past weekend saw Christians and Jews celebrate Easter and [...]
Magnitsky Acts kick in as sanctions against Russia echo apartheid boycott
Just on six years ago, in the depths of the [...]
Is SA going to hell or to heal? Well, it depends on how you look at it
Are you an optimist or a declinist? Or to use [...]
By thumbing our nose at the West, things can only go south
You might be a little embarrassed by Cyril Ramaphosa’s new [...]
Like Putin, SA’s ANC leaders are steeped in nostalgia for the Cold War
On February 24, when Vladimir Putin rolled his tanks into [...]
Cyril’s Ukraine cop-out betrays both SA and our struggle history
I rubbed my eyes when scanning Monday’s weekly newsletter by [...]
Kenyan response to Ukraine crisis puts SA to shame
Russia drove its tanks and fired its missiles over the [...]
SA’s politicians quite simply don’t have enough ‘skin in the game’ to care
Lebanese American polymath Nassim Nicholas Taleb has gifted the world [...]
The fundamental flaw at the heart of anti-foreign worker sentiment
Business Day’s recent front-page lead story might have tricked some [...]
Cyril can only restore our faith in him by action, not a glib Sona
In the 2016 US presidential election, American satirist and mainstream [...]
Why the state wants to keep the poor tied to its apron strings
On the logic that jackals are the best guardians of [...]
Instead of playing the blame game, Sisulu should check the facts
In 1918, American financial titan and international statesman Bernard Baruch [...]
As cadre deployment took root civil society failed to see writing on wall
There is a delicious irony at the heart of the [...]
Fire them! Why spineless Cyril is to blame for the parliament blaze
“As by fire” is the evocative phrase from the New [...]
What Ramaphosa has in common with Nixon, Clinton and Blair
To insert thread through the eye of a needle is [...]
SA no longer has the constitution for our tragic pantomime
In 2004, British playwright Michael Frayn’s award-winning play Democracy achieved [...]
Today politics says goodbye to a man whose name belies his character
Stanley Baldwin, three times British prime minister in the interwar [...]
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, [...]