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If I’d heard it from the friend who’d rolled by my place around 7 on the morning of Thursday, 25 June, I’d have called out his BS. Called him a bald-faced liar. But between obliging this unexpected, hungover visitor with a cigarette lighter, my timeline unusually began to act up. Rather than the usual mix … Even in defeat, SA had its FWC 2026 moments Read More »

With a modest discography on Spotify recorded from a tiny studio plonked in a busy lounge somewhere in Colesberg’s Zwelitsha Township, MekzaRsa – real name Asemahle Mekile – is less a standalone than a worn-out cliche of the near-impossible dream of ‘blowing up’ someday. To rock the cool apparel, fill up venues, make his mama … Colesberg artist nominated for NC award Read More »

Many years since my intermediate education days, I grapple with the right wording to describe how I felt about History. I was a self-declared ‘lost cause’ at Maths, so naturally I tended to stare up at the ceiling in Algebra but would soon regain mild ‘interest’ during English only because I was not flunking every … Whose History is it anyway: yours, mine, ours? Read More »

With June 30 – the D-Day where illegal foreigners have been threatened into a forced exodus or else ‘we’ll see’ – not too far off, what is one to make of 19-year-old Nhlamulo Sambo? In what is already an incendiary climate, all manner of speculation has come to the fore in the wake of the … Ramaphosa speaks as the marches swell Read More »

An eerie video is doing the rounds on TikTok. In it a man, seemingly operating all alone – Iskhakhaka (traditional Zulu shield) strapped to one forearm, a sjambok in his other hand – is walking briskly through what appears to be a downtown taxi rank in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal. Happening upon street vendors, he viciously lets … A Township Spring or scary witch-hunt. Read More »

Since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his application for an expeditious review of the indepent panel report, processes that are usually chronically glacial have started to chug on unusually fast. Even to the man praised as a master of the long game, the May 8 ConCourt judgment was such a blindside it had him coming out … Blame game and regret as Farmgate grates: Part 2 Read More »