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Bonnie Tyler passed on aged 75 last Wednesday, 8 July. Under normal circumstances I’d feel no compulsion to opine on some pop starlet thousands of kilometers away were it not for the fact that Tyler’s is less the death of an individual than the mourning for something that could hardly ever be done quite so … When Bonnie Tyler’s hair almost got wet in Bloem Read More »

The massive show of support for March and March as well as like-minded “dudula” groups were mind-blowing to witness as they unfolded on the ground. But if one takes stock of the fact that on the eve of the much-vaunted shutdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa met with only two of the prominent figures – Nkosikhona Ndabandaba … June 30: The national report Read More »

Just as a major police intervention was being rolled out across various parts of the country, June 30 came a day early in Colesberg. Kuyasa residents woke up to locked spazas on the 29th. The impact was immediate and all those positives that the pro-immigration fringe have been throwing around to justify why the #Mabahambe … June 30: Report from a Karoo town Read More »

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 »