SA’s parlous politics are more ‘Game of Thrones’ than Notre Dame
On Monday night, in the real world and in one [...]
When SA stops chasing away miners and tourists, we can talk of a new dawn
I am currently, literally, an ocean away from the homeland [...]
Running out of options, Cyril plays the struggle card
Did Cyril Ramaphosa morph in the past few days from [...]
Keep SA’s lights on? We’re too busy having fun
A few weeks ago, after a family commemoration, I was [...]
How DA can play the coalition game while sidelining the calamitous EFF
I once compared being leader of the opposition to making [...]
ANC’s brazen hypocrisy on Venezuela reveals its warped view of the world
“Imagine,” a Western diplomat from a leading investor nation in [...]
Of economic windfalls and political disasters
Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion genius at the house of Chanel [...]
Do Cyril and Tito dare break the racial quota taboo at Eskom?
Thursday is the most downcast budget day since the arrival [...]
Cyril Ramaphosa can take valuable pointers from Roosevelt’s play book
A year ago today, Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated as SA [...]
The rise of the political professional has paralysed SA parties
And then there were none. That was the thought that [...]
The voices we hear – and don’t hear – as poll fever bites
The rancorous tone of the election campaign here, even before [...]
The economic miracle of a land dubbed ‘ardently capitalist communist’
A couple of weeks ago, from 10,000km away, I had [...]
ANC’s overblown manifesto has a Clinton-Lewinsky feel to it
Even if you could believe the anti-corruption pledge in the [...]
Bigger picture says DA should ditch EFF in metros
During the holiday season I attended a glitzy event in [...]
Fool circle: We’ve gone from ‘idle bantu’ to ‘lackadaisical white’
Cyril has it in for lazy whites, but his all-purpose [...]
Interesting parallels between SA and UK, both are at political crossroads
Parliament's approval of land expropriation without compensation could set SA [...]
Facing economic disaster, we’re still in the dark about Cyril’s ‘reform’
Are some countries simply unreformable? This bleak, pre-festive season thought [...]
Brexpropriation a common thread of woe in SA and UK
To adapt Tolstoy, "Every unhappy country is unhappy in its [...]
De Lille gives ANC a glimmer of hope to take back the Cape
Despite modest support, she will create at least the possibility [...]
The DA dilemma: Looking two ways at once
There is the well-known joke about a foreign tourist lost [...]
Gigaba can learn a trick or two from fellow liar Trump
The apparently reckless US president has mastered the art of [...]
Books shed light on democratic backslidings replacing dictatorships
Literary bestseller lists likely often reflect the opposite of mass [...]