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It’s Day 45 of my ’emergency’ situation but still about another two weeks away from an appointment with an orthopedic specialist. Only then will they decide whether to operate on my leg but it’s hard to hold one’s breath. Not when Spotlight’s reporting has been painting an unoptimistic and gloomy picture of a severe backlog … Day 45 on the NC province’s surgery waiting list Read More »

In a well-planned but fundamentally ill-calculated move, Lex Libertas et al have set themselves – and by consequence, the rest of us – on a path of tension, resentment, suspicion and from which there is no going back, for them or anybody else. Wish I could say it was impulsive. That they did not properly … Politicking in the name of the dead Read More »

Following the colossal blunder by himself and his team, one would’ve expected Fikile Mbalula to be immediately placed on special leave instead of sitting pretty at Luthuli House. But if the video clips are anything to go by, Mbaks is still the swaggering Comrade SG – bouncy gait, megalonous voice, an inscouciant swell, almost as … LGE 2026: When factions make it hard to push “submit” Read More »

Lennerd is an Afrikaner seemingly on a US H-2A visa and works on a farm somewhere in North Dakota. On the sprawling fields rise monstrous tractors – the sort that look unlike anything one would ordinarily see on a plaas somewhere in Mzansi. Cows smack their lips in the background and Lennerd cuts the camera … US bans travel visas to SA officials and Lennerd goes to America Read More…

Three years ago, 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa could not read for meaning. This week the Nal’ibali Trust won the prestigious Library of Congress International Literacy Prize, taking home a cool $50 000 cash prize while at it. More than a decade, the NGO has been at the forefront of initiatives aimed … NGOs: Society’s unsung helping hand Read More »

To many South Africans Themba Lukhele Nzimande is an audacious podcaster known for streetwise monologues, fashionable sense of dress and a criminal past. A self-made celebrity with a solid social media presence, he is often seen rubbing shoulders with the cream of the country’s socialites and kitted out in high-end apparel but now the man … LGE2026: Big faces instead of big ideas Read More »