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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 »

Prowl the etherspace long enough and you may discover that South Africa could be passed off as Ghana, Zanzibar or some cannibalistic vodoo enclave in just another woebegone region somewhere in the ‘country’ of Africa. Indeed, you’d be quite surprised to find just how closed-off and insulated much of the developed world is from the … The world gasps as SA pilots work their magic Read More »