It’s time the state stopped spin doctoring and started doctoring
Reading director general of government communications Phumla Williams’s defence of [...]
Presidential sounds of silence are fuelling the fire engulfing SA
Workers Day, May 1 2022, offered South Africans sharply contrasting [...]
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, [...]