This virus has robbed gasbag Juju of oxygen – but don’t write him off
Eight months since the current plague emerged from Wuhan, China, [...]
SA’s IMF loan carries echoes of Britain in 1976
On September 28 1976 British prime minister James Callaghan made [...]
Shades of ’80s SA in this mysterious modern Star Chamber
The reason we use a 19th century remedy - washing [...]
Malawi’s triumph for democracy gives a cheerless world reason to take heart
Landlocked and impoverished Malawi occupies little attention in this country [...]
Opposition is a thankless task, but we can’t do without it
The late former leader of the parliamentary opposition, Frederik Van [...]
Plagues, locusts and SA’s political R factor
The fiscal apocalypse outlined in Wednesday's emergency budget was biblical [...]
SA ignored warnings about its debt crisis. Now you and I will pay dearly
When Tito Mboweni rises in parliament on Wednesday afternoon to [...]
The racial slant in Cyril’s Floyd-Biko parallel reveals his true colours
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro ranks as [...]
How Cyril went from secular saint to Mampara
Dominic Cummings - the controversial adviser to Boris Johnson who [...]
The clunking government fist on corona echoes Stalin’s Soviet Union
“The National Coronavirus Command Council”, which for past 10 weeks [...]
Too many Covid-19 puzzlements an uneasy resonance with pre-Nazi Germany
As South Africans endure the seventh week of home imprisonment, [...]
This is not our Mao or Pol Pot moment – there’s a pandemic to fight
Academic-turned-politician Prof Belinda Bozzoli MP recently noted that that there [...]
Virus requires extreme measures, not the extreme wittering of Malema et al
Freedom Day 2020 was the most baleful in SA’s recent history since [...]
Pandemic covers and uncovers a multitude of sins
Senator J. William Fulbright occupies a place in the political [...]
Instead of a virus national command, what SA really needs is a ‘Goat’
At the dawn of democracy SA gave birth to a [...]
The big disconnect between preparation for Covid-19 and the Credit-20 crash
A famous question was asked by British monarch Queen Elizabeth [...]
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 [...]