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With the clergy briefed, social media posts uploaded, residents of Colesberg may well be looking forward to partying up a storm come 7 February, courtesy of the ANC. This year, the 114 Provincial Anniversary Celebrations due to be held at the Toto Mayaba Stadium will see all manner of distinguished figures touching down in this … Of ANC parties in general and Colesberg’s in particular: Part 1. Read More »

It’s a frequent coincidence here at Toverview: the team agrees to meet up anywhere in town but somehow always winds up ‘kicking it’ under the shaded seating area at Ouma Anna. At first it came with the territory, us being backwater journos and they the newest inkommers to Colesberg’s culinary society, the story simply couldn’t … Dining diaries: Ouma Anna Read More »

Not sure whether to chalk it up to wanderlust or babalaas or an invite to a seafood paella in a gustblown Karoo dorpie that had me riding shotgun in Tiago Rodrigues’s delivery van. Might’ve been all three, along with the languid boredom that’s always gnawing at the restlessness of those with nothing to do in … Mr Rod, a friend in toil and play Read More »

Forget Ramaphosa or the GNU, it has been an unlikely Dr Piter Groenewald, leader of a minority party, who has unexpectedly found his name thrust into the national political discourse. Out of nowhere the Freedom Front Plus main ou has burst onto the scene, relentlessly popping up on the social media timeline and has had … Groenewald finally gets his moment Read More »

Some two years into Toverview: a raggedy start-up conceived in the semi-rural Karoo, funded by a pensioner, packaged by a toppie barely a few years his junior, then thrust into the internet – a hangout for trolls, deep fakes, and teenagers of questionable tendencies, dubious culture and little religion. And then someone asks us, the … Christmas thoughts on Toverview Read More »

Only forty years old, an otherwise healthy *Simphiwe Sandi declares, deadpan, that he wishes he had a disability. ‘It’s the only way,’ his unambiguous face confesses on a balmy Karoo noonday that ‘I can earn an income.’ In many a setting such a disclosure might be fobbed off as the ramblings of a man who’s … Social grants: Lifeline or badge of shame? Read More »