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 [...]
Don’t even bother, Mmusi. Your ‘people’s dialogue’ will be a flop
Away from the Eskom horror show, far be it for [...]
With left and right in flux, UK poll is bound to be a shake-up
A terror attack on London Bridge before polling day; opinion [...]
Corruption and conspiracies: the lies that bind our Zuma and Israel’s Bibi
At first blush, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu and [...]
Our own ‘royals’ in government go beyond parody
In 1867, constitutionalist Walter Bagehot decoded the enduring magic of [...]
How a slip of the tongue far away helped bring down apartheid
On Saturday night in Berlin, the capital of chic modernity [...]
Look and learn: choking debt before it chokes you
Comparing two different polities, especially with different demographics, history and [...]
Mboweni and Ramaphosa, it’s time for action
This week’s medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) is the grimmest [...]
Tito may not have good news, but he won’t fly a false flag – we hope
South Africans desperately seeking some good news are unlikely to [...]