Be worried, ANC. You’ve failed on jabs and jobs and the local polls loom
Local elections anywhere can often lead to false readings of [...]
As another Freedom Day passes, where are the genuine SA statesmen?
Historian CV Wedgwood wrote: “History is written backward but lived [...]
Our land of dreams has no help for pain
It is probably incautious in these incendiary times to remind [...]
Country’s top lawyers given short shrift in judicial appointments
SA leads the world’s constitutional democracies in its supply of [...]
This is what I really meant when I called Maimane an ‘experiment’
The death last week of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, [...]
Don’t blame ‘vaccine apartheid’ as you sleepwalk through pandemic, Cyril
Using the old South African trope of eliding the 27-year-in-office [...]
Israel a handy alibi for SA’s poor foreign policy
In 1977, when apartheid was at its zenith and Johannesburg [...]
How can SA swallow Cyril Ramaphosa’s big whoppers?
In 2011 Cyril Ramaphosa added to his personal fortune when [...]
The simple fact is that the ANC has been in power too long
A famous historian archly observed that “the wheel of history [...]
How the ANC has chased away investors, taxpayers and prosperity
Despite the magic of [Nelson] Mandela and the so-called rainbow [...]
Who leads the DA when Steenhuisen follows another leader?
When I was leader of the opposition, I once compared [...]
Judicial bribery slur warrants immediate action
In my new book, Future Tense - Reflections on My Troubled [...]
To retain SA’s bread and butter, which is possible, you need to get creative, Tito
Next month my new book, Future Tense — Reflections on my [...]
Ramaphosa is failing in his duty to protect the constitution
I was in New York the day after the November [...]
Despite his promises, Cyril’s Covid comedy of errors shows few signs of a happy ending
Cyril Ramaphosa’s day on Monday was appreciably better than the [...]
Can the courts rescue us again from government malpractice?
January 26 revealed stark contrasts for two nationalist leaders as [...]
Settling for mediocrity might be a pragmatic political position
It’s one of life’s cosmic mysteries. How did SA — [...]
Why ‘Marxist’ Bozzoli felt more at home in DA than in nationalistic ANC
Watching, online, the moving memorial service at Wits in tribute [...]
Batty decisions are a blow, but the vaccine shambles is unforgivable
“Putting the moron into oxymoron” struck me as the right [...]
Maradona: a metaphor for the paradoxes of Argentina
In a now vanished age, May 2010, I went to [...]
In SA, as in Poland, the Bolsheviks rule, not the democrats
Tuesday’s Business Day newspaper had a tableau of front page [...]
Slow and sedate Ramaphosa, so unlike fast and furious Trump
Having placed three bets on a Joe Biden presidential win, [...]