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 …
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 …
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 …
From boots on the ground, to potholes being suddenly filled could only mean one thing: the political silly season has been revved up to high gear. Pretty soon the knocks will come rapping on the door and it won’t be Jehovah’s Witnesses but Fighters, Cadres, sometimes an obscure figure you’ve never even heard of. The …
The people tell the big shots to “go away” as the LGEs loom Read More »
A cursory glance at the general opinions about SA’s public health care facilities and you begin to see them as places where people don’t necessarily go to find help – but to die. The video evidence on social media is as ubiquitous as it shocking, probably worrisome when you’re of a certain income bracket. From …
In what can only be described as a blindside nobody ever saw coming, this week Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma had a much-publicised meeting with Kallie Kriel. The feisty March and March leader – forthright and brutal with journalists and anyone else who takes umbrage at her unwavering anti-immigration stance – appeared cordial and even spoke Afrikaans next …
Afriforum and March and March meet. Socials erupt. Read More »
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 …
Unemployment up as local government elections loom Read More »
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 …
Expropriation: Political tool or an act of justice Read More »
