Eparkeni

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 »

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 »