A farmer in a thrift shop checkered shirt and kortbroek is standing at a cant at a petrol pump next to an overall-clad shopfloor worker. Says one: ‘Malema is the best.’ ‘Ag,’ scoffs the other, ‘that guy comes into power and this [pointing at the R36/litre fuel indicator] will be R100 by Christmas.’ ‘Nee, no, …
Sunday. With the LGEs barely a fortnight away, the voices one was expecting to hear the loudest on the penultimate weekend before V-Day are astoundingly quiet. Or they are out there defending a crass utterance. Or self cannabilising in the wretched power plays of factionalism and internal party squabbles. The once upon a time electioneering …
City of Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille is winding down what will surely go down as a surpringly and impressively innovative campaign. On the best of days, Zille is the ruthless politician; prone to lunging for the jugular on debates and quick to put journalists who ask tough questions in their place. She is vicious, …
The one thing the world can agree on is that there’s an arm-long list of people that US President Donald Trump doesn’t like. What one couldn’t quite put a finger on was exactly which culprit had him pulling at his orange mope the most. The list was an erratic flux between Putin, Maduro, Greenland, Iran, …
Barely a month until the local government election and the July Constitutional Court ruling has suddenly been resurrected and thrown a spanner in the works. The #Abahambe lot, specifically Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma has come out guns blazing, glibly uttering a slip-up that has seen Black Twitter intent on mopping the floor with her. In the face …
It’s Day 45 of my ’emergency’ situation but still about another two weeks away from an appointment with an orthopedic specialist. Only then will they decide whether to operate on my leg but it’s hard to hold one’s breath. Not when Spotlight’s reporting has been painting an unoptimistic and gloomy picture of a severe backlog …
Day 45 on the NC province’s surgery waiting list Read More »
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 …
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 …
