Soon there may be no part of SA that’s more Swiss than Guatemalan
SA is obviously a deeply divided country. It is also, [...]
ANC should learn about electricity from Lenin
The South African economy will be on life support this [...]
As we teeter on the brink of the abyss, the silence of big business is deafening
The cavalcade of chaos and crises confronting South Africa right [...]
Klein Krokodil Mantashe morphs into a Gorgon in the PW Botha mould
On September 6 1966, in the assembly chamber of parliament [...]
No festival of lights here. And forget about a miracle
On Wednesday I bumped into a veteran journalist just back [...]
Shades of Waterkloof: let’s talk about that Russian ship on Cape shores
Back in 1973, the New York Times master columnist and [...]
With Ramaphosa’s zugzwang, it’s goodbye to the new dawn
Goodbye To All That was the title of the 1929 autobiography [...]
We’re back where ‘restraint and generosity’ are outlandish for a leader
Does effective, shapeshifting leadership require its exemplars to push against [...]
Cyril and Joe share a secret electoral sauce
The political fortunes of Joe Biden, who has just turned [...]
Bill Browder and Tony Leon argue that money, not morality, dictates South Africa’s support for Vladimir Putin
King Charles III has conferred a signal honour on South [...]
ANC candidates sing from the same ideological hymn sheet
To see how little distinguishes the lead candidates for the [...]
Democracy is slowly chipping away at the denialists in the US
Last Tuesday, election day for the mid-terms in the US, [...]
Youthful nations are infatuated with good old lies — why?
A flurry of elections — two just held and one [...]
The empire strikes back, and it could very well be the UK’s saviour
I arrived in London on Tuesday, the day of a [...]
The making of The South African Miracle Episode 04 – Tony Leon. Gabe Makin Podcasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnimqiRSxgs
Worldview Interview with Solly Moeng – The ANC Plan Is To Make South Africa ungovernable
Link to the interview: https://youtu.be/pPv3VYPEwcY
With the ‘shelf life of a lettuce’, there’s little doubt Liz will soon be trussed
A British friend who is a senior lawmaker in the [...]
What will kick off SA’s Arab spring?
In 2011 Xi Jinping was simply vice-president of China, before [...]
Joburg was made a political ‘offer it couldn’t refuse’
“The Return of the Locusts” is an apt and lapidary [...]
Pandor’s comical UN speech quickly sinks into oblivion
Imagine you addressed a conference on SA’s economic prospects, and [...]
Ramaphosa’s meeting with US president a non-event, just like his reforms
One of Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite aphorisms was, apparently, “I [...]
Truss me on this one, Liz: new dawns get old fast
Newly elected (by the tiny universe of her own party [...]