It’s land now. Will it end with the death penalty?
The trouble with changing the Constitution is that it opens [...]
It takes a special leader who is big enough to put country before party
The late US Senator John McCain reinforced his best self [...]
Mission unaccomplished: We have an embassy problem
The fallout from Trump’s Twitter land bomb suggests something seriously [...]
The not so secret sauce SA doesn’t have
“Resilience!”. That’s what two business mavens advised me was the [...]
Come what May, there is a finer model for our future
When the economy is spluttering at 1% growth it is [...]
Architect of constitution Ramaphosa now puts Bill of Rights up for grabs
Late on Tuesday evening last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s "new [...]
In black and white: ANC’s great race to the bottom
When it comes to ‘representivity’ among its leaders the ruling [...]
TV expropriation debate enters realm of Neverland
I was reminded sharply on Tuesday night of the rebuke [...]
New dawn? More like a false sighting under Ramaphosa
Instead of co-ordinated governance, SA has seen disjointed decision-making and [...]
There would be king-size hell to pay if Zille did a Zwelithini
Jerry Brown, enjoys many distinctions in political life. He is [...]
Vietnam War-like outcomes loom over social engineering schemes
With SA’s currency crashing through the floor, the petrol price [...]
New dawn? More like a false sighting under Ramaphosa
Instead of co-ordinated governance, SA has seen disjointed decision-making and [...]
Things are very bad and a lot better
The Ramaphosa presidency is an infant –four months old, and [...]
Face facts: Pravin’s a commie, Cyril’s a union man
The opening weekend of the Fifa World Cup produced no [...]
Trump may have no clothes, but SA is naked in the investment winter
Personable, affable Ramaphosa offers intangibles in a country that desperately [...]
Why it would do us all good to keep the super-rich in SA
Leaders who create the right conditions to keep millionaires find [...]
On expropriation, let’s not be glad to settle for half a loaf
What has our burning topic du jour, ‘expropriation without compensation’ [...]
Lessons from antiquity for the peculiar DA-EFF bromance
Like the Roman emperor, those who do the dance of [...]
Spectre of past returns to haunt DA with race narrative about De Lille
The fiasco around the rapid ousting of Cape Town mayor [...]
So much for the ‘new dawn’: SA silent on Mideast atrocities
In the face of a murderous Assad and possible war [...]
Memories of memories, and the truth
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes a young biographer in search of [...]
Why Ramaphosa won’t reform the country until he reforms his party
Ramaphosa’s early exit from London last week was a rude [...]