On any given day peer into our local clinics and see the health troubles of our day writ large along the teeming corridors. Teenage pregnancy. HIV/AIDS. An overburdened public health care system where the dutiful Batho Pele principles posted on the walls are no more than wishful thinking for those who might not get assistance …
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News wafting through the political front are so bewildering, so defying of logic it’s hard to reconcile them as anything but fake news. Or something you’d expect on one of those free-to-air news channels that nobody who hasn’t settled his monthly DStv installment would bother tuning in to. Except the ones in question are – …
Apart from being stone-cold forthright, Herman Mashaba also has a reputation for being very, very stubborn and harbouring the type of views that verge on the extreme: Condemning rapists and murderers to the noose; mass deportations visited on undocumented foreign nationals; a hardline military presence at our “porous borders” and South Africans who do not …
In the wake of the Thabo Bester saga pundits have waxed lyrical on, inter alia, a corrupt security cluster as well as the inherent poisoned chalice of roping in the private sector to do government bidding. But for many South Africans, these tended to eschew the next everyday and uncomplicated footfall that is – even …
Following the results of the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) federal conference in 2020, I published an opinion piece on City Press that began thus: “It is now history that Mbali Ntuli’s Rhodes University degree could not prevail over John Steenhuisen’s matric certificate for the position of DA federal leader. This…the same party whose political yarn is spun around merit – …
This is eParkeni’s very first commission. Needless to say, we’re chuffed, if not taken aback! To offset these turbulent economic times, sane people tend to tread cautiously around their finances. Heeding expert counsel, they put money away in banks, investment portfolios, sometimes – when they’re sure nobody’s watching – even stash it inside furniture. Can’t …
Colesberg, March 20. It’s early morning and Julius Malema casts a shadow apparently long enough to spook an entire town out of sleep. A rare but distinct noise reverberates through Kuyasa Township. Booming baritones, thundering feet, clarion whistling, it could only mean one thing: a toi-toi! The numbers are initially paltry, the singing barely loud …
Thanks to a teething but hyped-about subgenre of music blandly known as Amapiano it dawned on me recently just how ignorant I’ve been. How artistically the world has progressed and I’ve seemingly remained behind; an outdated relic who missed the bus into this flagrant new age. All these decades music had occupied the more endearing …
Friday, 17 March. Hardly three months into the year 2023 of our Lord and The Rainbow Nation stands at the cusp of some profound events. Not to rub it in, as is the job description of any writer and journalist worth his salt, but that is simply the nature of the beast; to report on …
President Reshuffles, Premier Delivers SOPA and Red Monday Looms Large. Read More »
If there is a sacrosanct dictum that is religiously drummed at food-and-wine-pairings it’s that, unlike relationships, in cuisine and grog, opposites seldom turn out to be a match made in heaven. In fact the opposite applies, namely; species of a plumage – or in wine speak, cultivar – tend to hit it off like a …
Bordeaux, 1989; Colesberg’s Must-visit Restaurants Read More »
