Barely out of adolescence, the multi-purpose stadium at Colesberg’s Riemvasmaak has long deteriorated into a limping, incontinent senility. The courts show signs of early ageing, are pock-marked and riddled with cracks. Shattered bottles and litter lie strewn everywhere, and those posts that aren’t completely broken are tinkering on their last legs. Nobody to swing a …
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Though Julius Malema may have struck panic into the hearts of segments of the population when he stopped short of calling for the slaughter of white people, the soundbite that should have been cause for disquiet was the one of the EFF leader allegedly rallying the faithful to take up unoccupied land back in 2014. …
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Even at his most impassioned Songezo Zibi’s pastoral etiquette speaks as much to his mien as it simultaneously raises a salient question: sure, he’s one of the educated ones with an impressive resume but is the man from Mqanduli’s skin calloused enough to weather the vicissitudes of the SA political climate? At least insofar as …
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In what is suspected to be a politically motivated incident, the ANC sub-regional chairperson Siya Phololo’s bakkie went up in flames in the wee hours of Thursday morning. This follows a fortnight of intermittent protests on the back of employment to the SANRAL road reconstruction projects due to get underway along the N1 highway near …
In what was always poised as a tinderbox long boiling to implode, overnight the streets of Kuyasa Township went from easy traffic to barricaded roads, burning tyres and angry residents telling law enforcement to ‘v*k off.’ So intense was the situation that riot police were called in from de Aar, and at a few times …
Axed ANC secretary-general, Ace Magashule. Image: South African Government.
Operation Dudula President Zandile Dabula. Image: BBC Africa Eye
Not one to have cold feet around his boarding school accent and is yet to make any outlandish promises around fixing everything overnight, Arise South Africa leader, Mpho Dagada, is not the archetypal South African politician. The 29-year old presidential hopeful’s string of runaway successes hark back to 2013. When fellow first year students at …
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Inasmuch as South Africa’s mainstream media offer worthwhile punditry particularly around the hot topic of race, it is, – I find – usually the reader comments that are most poignant. Coming as they do from everyday people, read them and it’s unequivocal: Ours remains a gravely divided nation of laagers and kraals; decrepitude, potholes and …
