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Not too long ago the local press would have us believe that Afriforum’s lobbying in the US was less a masterclass in the art of woeing MAGAites than an ill-planned gimmick. From posing in front of buildings they never entered, to dropping names of people they could barely get hold of on the telephone, it … Ernst gets his shine as new media hits and misses Read More »

A Soweto man rises early in the morning, baths and heads to work. So far this is a pedestrian – even cliched – routine anywhere in the world and certainly doesn’t merit a feel-good write up on one of the country’s premium media outlets, Daily Maverick. Except Brian Chauke’s gig – likely inspired by a … Odd Jobs as menace lurks Online Read More »

As the proles were clutching at their collective throats in light of a possible 0.5% VAT hike and Potus 2.0’s no-aid salvos at SA, a quartet of ex office-bearers were refusing to vacate their heavily subsidized state housing despite having long been kicked off the carousel of power. According to the GroundUp report, ‘the department … 5% VAT as ex MPs refuse to leave the house Read More »

The 2025/2026 fiscal framework of the National Budget that was postponed in February, delivered in March and looked like it wouldn’t see the light of day this April limped it’s way through Parliament with a slim 12 (194 to 182) votes this Wednesday. These the ANC scrounged together from the IFP, PA, BOSA, UDM, Rise … Budget 2025 – Is it the end of the road for the GNU? Read…

For this writer, I imagine South Africa a lot like being the ‘sane’ staff who find themselves tasked with overseeing the goings on of a mental institution. Most days you wing through the motions. The mayhem, noise, the guy who violently mutilates his head against the wall, the woman who swears that she was once … SA is a joke even though we aren’t really laughing Read More »

The Franschoek Book Festival, to paraphrase a prolific black writer of some repute, is the sort of shindig where you wash the salted crackers down with award-winning savignon-blanc, rub shoulders with respectable men of letters, all the while feeling out of place in this ‘spot-the-darkie festival.’ Apparently the darker hued scribes would rather bluetick (or … The Rainbow Nation doesn’t mean singing Kumbaya in Paarl Read More »