Zwelinzima Vavi must surely be the one cadre who’s parried more long knives than our last three presidents combined. This even though he is foremost a unionist, a disciple of the MDR movement by affiliation, and his conduct has never quite led one to believe he was ever in it for the hotseat. Or the …
‘Pain gives a quality to what is happening that nothing else seems able to give’ counsels the late Desmond Tutu to Antjie Krog in her book Country of my Skull. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has just been handed new information on, amongst others, The Cradock Four and Pebco 3, and the Bishop, back from …
If President Donald Trump’s ‘orchestrated show for the cameras’ was meant to poke President Cyril Ramaphosa in the eye, the SA leader didn’t kick up his chair. Not so much a shit-eating grin at what has been broadly called an ‘ambush’ by the media. And if there ever was a moment that a Buffalo might …
The story goes that when Trevor Manual first rose to a Minister in Nelson Mandela’s cabinet, he could barely work a PC. He must’ve been one of the privileged ones as some of his colleagues – fresh from whatever dank the old regime had abandoned them to – might have never seen, let alone sat …
The Buffalo meets Potus but the old SA scuffle never die. Read More »
On the off-chance of catching a newsclip of a measured and presidential Donald Trump, it is still nigh impossible to divorce the image of a property mogul celebrity from the besuited statesman sat at a pristine desk in the Oval Office nonchalantly signing one executive order after another with a smug grin that almost looks like …
No, not because Charlize Theron, to wholesale lampooning, claimed that only forty-four people speak the language. Nor because I’ve mailed a CV out to Wanatu. Orania – the travel doccies go – is a thrifty, quaint little enclave with a charm so disparate from the mainland that the koeksister enjoys more respect than the vuvuzela …
Just shy of an astounding half of South Africa’s teachers want out of the profession by 2035. This is according to the Teacher Preferences and Job Satisfaction in South Africa report by the Research on Socio-Economic Policy unit (Resep) at Stellenbosch University, that has shed a spotlight around what the day in the life of …
In what was a provincial elective conference that passed with lackluster punditry, the ANC top five executive leaders in the Northern Cape were re-elected to their positions unopposed. At the African National Congress’s (ANC) tenth provincial conference on Tuesday (22 April) Dr Zamani Saul was reinstated as the provincial Chairperson for a third consecutive term. …
Provincial conference season kicks off in Northern Cape Read More »
Not too long ago the local press would have us believe that Afriforum’s lobbying in the US was less a masterclass in the art of woeing MAGAites than an ill-planned gimmick. From posing in front of buildings they never entered, to dropping names of people they could barely get hold of on the telephone, it …
Ernst gets his shine as new media hits and misses Read More »
A Soweto man rises early in the morning, baths and heads to work. So far this is a pedestrian – even cliched – routine anywhere in the world and certainly doesn’t merit a feel-good write up on one of the country’s premium media outlets, Daily Maverick. Except Brian Chauke’s gig – likely inspired by a …
