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 …
If the Multi-Party Charter for SA (colloquially known as the Moonshot Pact) could be viewed as Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen’s biggest political move, the reportage in its wake was rather unenthused, derisive, and very far from convinced. Held at the same venue as the CODESA negotiations perhaps it was the brazen allusion that South …
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Bump into *Oldjohn Hewana, down to a T like the approachable residents of Kuyasa township: generally well-meaning, beanie slanted over one eyebrow, a piecemeal gig going here or there, thanks very much. But also, – even as he tries so hard to be of good cheer – the wan glare of discontent about him. An …
Trundling off to a midday appointment eParkeni was running late for, we fell upon a sight that elicited palpable sighs, stopping us screeching in our tracks. Zama-Mbishe Store, for around two decades an enduring institution to township entrepreneurship, was closed shut, seemingly for good. Endearingly known as kwaMbishe – The Uglyish One’s – in reference …
A little over two decades ago, in 1991, Paul Bell, a suave city slicker with a square jaw and a restless flutter in his eyes, came riding into Colesberg on assignment for the reputable Leadership Magazine. His outstanding career in strategic communications with the Independent Electoral Commission and later, Bell Pottinger, still lay in the …
