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 …
Brother Nde: the kids must be clued-up on the socials Read More »
Amongst disillusioned black folk Prince Mashele was once a literary Doctor Khumalo whom many were always eager to get behind, this whilst he was a thorn in the proverbial behind for the ruling elite. His column on The Sowetan newspaper was a surgical, scathing read churning out tongue in cheek insights rich with insults every …
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In early June, *Thulisa Makinana went on a night out with friends in Kuyasa, Colesberg. In the wee hours of the following morning, her lifeless body was found in a nearby veldt allegedly stabbed multiple times by an intimate partner. For the quiet Karoo town, the incident sent shockwaves, saw the provincial government personally paying …
As Washington sought to throw another spanner in the works by not just boycotting, but openly mocking the G20 summit, the famously ‘wimpish’ President Cyril Ramaphosa had quite clearly had enough. At a press conference a few days before the meeting, he cast aside the measured monologues for something that suggested he wouldn’t be taking …
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Wednesday, 5 November. On a crunching gravel road somewhere in the Karoo the Toyota hybrid we are in cruises unhurriedly along. Well on time, we resist showing up too early preoccupied as we are as to the sort of cat David Muller might turn out to be. In the papers he is dubbed the ‘Merry …
US President Donald Trump’s decision to snub the G20 summit later this month has resulted in something that oscilates between panic and a lackadaisical ‘it’s their loss’ from President Cyril Ramaphosa. Although it came as little surprise, it still would’ve been grating for the ‘leader of the free world’ to start taking broadsides and practically …
