If nothing else, the recent unemployment statistics affirm, at least in the general perception, that the government – even in its current configuration – is way out of its depth when it comes to meaningful and sustainable job creation. With unemployment hovering above thirty percent over several years, at the very least, the powers that …
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The legal showdown of the post-democratic era got underway this week when the Democratic Alliance, Afriforum, the Institute for Race Relations and at least one other organisation took to the Western Cape High Court to challenge the highly-contested Expropriation Act of 2024. It was a grand show of force and with so much riding on …
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When Prof Jonathan Jansen sat down to publish yet another article – as has been his habit spanning many decades – he would’ve known that he’d poke the springbok and stir the kind of discourse that would see the antelope bolting far out of the university campus and into the unwinnable politics of race and …
It’s a Tuesday morning at Colesberg’s Kuyasa clinic and there is a healthy and very apparent bustle of children. Whether strapped to a mother’s back, or swaddled in a blanket or old enough to walk themselves over, Tuesdays and Thursdays are widely known as immunisation day, so the place looks more like a playground today. …
This week Toverview is due to send out their 100th newsletter, a pleasantly surprising if not totally miraculous milestone when you consider the rag’s humble beginnings. From the ragtag motley, picked up in various states of circumstance, age, and disposition and brought on board with no promises other than to just go along and give …
In an unprecedented move, the National Treasury has decided to withhold billions in equitable share transfers to 70 municipalities citing financial mismanagement and non-compliance with the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA). Despite attempts at training and offering support, the abuse of state coffers has gone on unabated hence Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has finally dropped …
Bonnie Tyler passed on aged 75 last Wednesday, 8 July. Under normal circumstances I’d feel no compulsion to opine on some pop starlet thousands of kilometers away were it not for the fact that Tyler’s is less the death of an individual than the mourning for something that could hardly ever be done quite so …
When Bonnie Tyler’s hair almost got wet in Bloem Read More »
The massive show of support for March and March as well as like-minded “dudula” groups were mind-blowing to witness as they unfolded on the ground. But if one takes stock of the fact that on the eve of the much-vaunted shutdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa met with only two of the prominent figures – Nkosikhona Ndabandaba …
Just as a major police intervention was being rolled out across various parts of the country, June 30 came a day early in Colesberg. Kuyasa residents woke up to locked spazas on the 29th. The impact was immediate and all those positives that the pro-immigration fringe have been throwing around to justify why the #Mabahambe …
If I’d heard it from the friend who’d rolled by my place around 7 on the morning of Thursday, 25 June, I’d have called out his BS. Called him a bald-faced liar. But between obliging this unexpected, hungover visitor with a cigarette lighter, my timeline unusually began to act up. Rather than the usual mix …
