Around this time last year President Cyril Ramaphosa was readying himself to deliver the yearly State of the Nation address. High on most people’s minds was whether his “fellow South Africans” would hear the entirety of the First Citizen’s (FC) soliloquy without the power going out or the EFF, well, eish, just being the jeering …
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“Why race continues to matter in South Africa when it shouldn’t,” reads Sandile Vabaza’s opinion piece heading on the Daily Friend, online publication of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR). That the article puts forth a sensible argument doesn’t spare the author from the barrage of crude comments – many bordering on racist – that …
At only 16, Gayton McKenzie’s polite way of asking for pocket money was to press a cold AK-47 against an unsuspecting guard’s temple. Seemingly he has put away the illegal firearms, reinventing himself as a doughty politician, still, it is his former incarnation that the world continues to talk most about. It’s how some remember …
In a turnabout that has got his former underlings – who once respectfully referred to him as uBaba – incensed, former president Jacob Zuma’s latest move is akin to that middle finger he’s known to show when adjusting his spectacles. Except this time it’s less out of mere habit than a pointed “stuff you!” at …
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.
