SA tourism is like a Mandela statue: grandeur with a crumbling base
Headline articles in two influential British newspapers encapsulated the contradictions [...]
‘Moon pact’ talks a worthwhile gamble
Some years back I was invited to Emperors Palace, Kempton [...]
Now, more than ever, SA must reconsider its stance on Russia/Ukraine conflict
There will be a lot on the agenda during this [...]
Cyril can’t see the forest for the magic money trees
The genius dark television drama-comedy Succession, concerning the inner angst [...]
It seems ANC chicanery can bring deeply divided US parties together
You have to hand it to the ANC and our [...]
From Turkey to SA nationalism is key to retaining power
Imagine a country where, due to the president and his [...]
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‘Nonaligned’, ‘pick up the rand’, ‘president’: when words mean fokol Gallery‘Nonaligned’, ‘pick up the rand’, ‘president’: when words mean fokol
African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance, International Politics, Jacob Zuma, John Steenhuisen, Parliament, Pravin Gordhan, South African Politics, Vladimir Putin, World Politics
‘Nonaligned’, ‘pick up the rand’, ‘president’: when words mean fokol
American dissident and writer James Baldwin once noted you can [...]
Pay attention to the ticking of the Doomsday Clock
How, in the face of unimaginable horror in the deepest [...]
It works every time: when in a corner, attack the West
Never underestimate the electoral hay ultranationalist leaders harvest by attacking [...]
Ramaphosa’s game of bluff despite the mirror behind him
British statesman Roy Jenkins wrote of the life and career [...]
I hear you like big numbers, Mr President, so let’s zero in on that 12 million
Writing in the Financial Times this week, Sarah O’Connor confessed: [...]
What ails our gaffe-prone president?
“Senescence” is defined as the condition or process of deteriorating [...]
WASP patriarchy leaps from pages of Oppenheimer biography
On July 25 2000, the night the Concorde crashed shortly [...]
There’s a mess all right, but unfortunately no Messiah
February’s explosive eNCA interview with former Eskom CEO André de [...]
Illiberal democracy has come home to roost in SA
In 1997, a decade before he became a global media [...]
Polycrisis calls for opposition party unity
Three recent events compel attention and suggest the narrow path [...]
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The nightmare keeping us awake during load-shedding: Malema in the Union Buildings GalleryThe nightmare keeping us awake during load-shedding: Malema in the Union Buildings
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Democratic Alliance, EFF, Elections, Eskom, Julius Malema, Loadshedding, South African Politics
The nightmare keeping us awake during load-shedding: Malema in the Union Buildings
In April 1992 Britain’s most read newspaper, The Sun, hit [...]
When it comes to cabinet composition, the buck stops with Ramaphosa
Anyone who endures the regime of intermittent fasting or carb-counting [...]
There’s no room for optimism without action, Cyril
I keep a collection — now spilling into multiple volumes [...]
The ANC has mastered the art of doublethink, doublespeak and double-cross
George Orwell is one of the most influential political authors [...]
How many ministers does it take to screw in the country’s light bulb?
In the closing credits of the 1988 comic movie masterpiece, [...]
Things fall apart as weak Ramaphosa channels his inner Graaff
Douglas Gibson, veteran combatant of the internecine wars that felled [...]