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 …
Big Budgets, Crumbling Facilities and the Lone Ranger Read More »
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 …
On the Campaign Trail: Can the Editor Zibi RISE to the Occassion? Read More »
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 …
No Amandla Without Data: eParkeni on the 2024 Campaign Trail Read More »
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 …
