No, not because Charlize Theron, to wholesale lampooning, claimed that only forty-four people speak the language. Nor because I’ve mailed a CV out to Wanatu. Orania – the travel doccies go – is a thrifty, quaint little enclave with a charm so disparate from the mainland that the koeksister enjoys more respect than the vuvuzela …
Just shy of an astounding half of South Africa’s teachers want out of the profession by 2035. This is according to the Teacher Preferences and Job Satisfaction in South Africa report by the Research on Socio-Economic Policy unit (Resep) at Stellenbosch University, that has shed a spotlight around what the day in the life of …
In what was a provincial elective conference that passed with lackluster punditry, the ANC top five executive leaders in the Northern Cape were re-elected to their positions unopposed. At the African National Congress’s (ANC) tenth provincial conference on Tuesday (22 April) Dr Zamani Saul was reinstated as the provincial Chairperson for a third consecutive term. …
Provincial conference season kicks off in Northern Cape Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 More »
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 »
Emerging from flunkable stints in both the embattled home affairs and a health department in a vegetative state, one never thought anything worth paying attention to would ever escape the lips of Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Seen as the paragon of a non-performing minister, his doctoral qualification, however, may have spared him from the usual accusations …
Crumbling health, Pepfar and The Donald shows his true colours Read More »
