Indulge me in playing devil’s advocate, dear reader. A preposition which seeks to put paid to the nation’s gnawing and uncertain question is increasingly gaining momentum. It has the political elite regularly on the lookout to cross the floor. Business is disappearing assets into offshore accounts, you know, just in case. This whilst some of …
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‘No, no no! They’re not voiceless,’ asserts Ina Skosana, hands buried deep in her volumous weave in feigned exasperation. Her ordinarily grinning face is now creased as the Health-e News editor pans the room as if to make sure that what she has to say next will not fall on unattentive ears. ‘We .. we …
If the intelligentsia had seen the turnout at the Northern Cape ANC’s leg of the 114th anniversary celebrations this past Saturday, they might’ve second guessed the veracity of the orbituaries they have taken to penning specifically post-2024. Packed to the rafters – with some putting the figures at around 12 500 – Toto Mayaba Stadium …
With the clergy briefed, social media posts uploaded, residents of Colesberg may well be looking forward to partying up a storm come 7 February, courtesy of the ANC. This year, the 114 Provincial Anniversary Celebrations due to be held at the Toto Mayaba Stadium will see all manner of distinguished figures touching down in this …
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It’s a frequent coincidence here at Toverview: the team agrees to meet up anywhere in town but somehow always winds up ‘kicking it’ under the shaded seating area at Ouma Anna. At first it came with the territory, us being backwater journos and they the newest inkommers to Colesberg’s culinary society, the story simply couldn’t …
Not sure whether to chalk it up to wanderlust or babalaas or an invite to a seafood paella in a gustblown Karoo dorpie that had me riding shotgun in Tiago Rodrigues’s delivery van. Might’ve been all three, along with the languid boredom that’s always gnawing at the restlessness of those with nothing to do in …
Forget Ramaphosa or the GNU, it has been an unlikely Dr Piter Groenewald, leader of a minority party, who has unexpectedly found his name thrust into the national political discourse. Out of nowhere the Freedom Front Plus main ou has burst onto the scene, relentlessly popping up on the social media timeline and has had …
Some two years into Toverview: a raggedy start-up conceived in the semi-rural Karoo, funded by a pensioner, packaged by a toppie barely a few years his junior, then thrust into the internet – a hangout for trolls, deep fakes, and teenagers of questionable tendencies, dubious culture and little religion. And then someone asks us, the …
Only forty years old, an otherwise healthy *Simphiwe Sandi declares, deadpan, that he wishes he had a disability. ‘It’s the only way,’ his unambiguous face confesses on a balmy Karoo noonday that ‘I can earn an income.’ In many a setting such a disclosure might be fobbed off as the ramblings of a man who’s …
Online, this writer has a couple thousand followers and friends, in real life, barely a handful. What does that essentially mean? Well, theoretically it boils down to this logical conclusion: If he is ever stupid enough to post links to his scribblings on his various social media, potentially they would reach a few hundred pairs …
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