Quite understandably, the bluenose reader will consider the occasional gleaning on social media, at best, as tardy journalism. So I trust they’ll forgive my eavesdropping this past Sunday on Songezi Zibi’s ‘presser’ of another kind. The Rise Mzansi leader and chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was sat candidly discussing the work …
Over the past week my social media timeline has led one to believe that in the upcoming local government elections (LGE) the City of Johannesburg will be where the gloves come off and there’ll likely be blood on the floor. Whilst elsewhere the canvassing mostly creeps up subliminally in the form of potholes being fixed, …
Joburgh might be the litmus test of SA’s political future. Read More »
The 2030 Reading Panels 2026 Background Report which shockingly revealed – amongst a list of other horrifying findings – that some 15% of Grade 3s scored zero in reading assessments has sent shockwaves throughout the country. These numbers almost doubled for Grades 1 – 3 in home language literacy. Although much of the media have …
Indulge me in playing devil’s advocate, dear reader. A preposition which seeks to put paid to the nation’s gnawing and uncertain question is increasingly gaining momentum. It has the political elite regularly on the lookout to cross the floor. Business is disappearing assets into offshore accounts, you know, just in case. This whilst some of …
SA: A chessboard or opposing black and white blocks? Read More »
‘No, no no! They’re not voiceless,’ asserts Ina Skosana, hands buried deep in her volumous weave in feigned exasperation. Her ordinarily grinning face is now creased as the Health-e News editor pans the room as if to make sure that what she has to say next will not fall on unattentive ears. ‘We .. we …
If the intelligentsia had seen the turnout at the Northern Cape ANC’s leg of the 114th anniversary celebrations this past Saturday, they might’ve second guessed the veracity of the orbituaries they have taken to penning specifically post-2024. Packed to the rafters – with some putting the figures at around 12 500 – Toto Mayaba Stadium …
With the clergy briefed, social media posts uploaded, residents of Colesberg may well be looking forward to partying up a storm come 7 February, courtesy of the ANC. This year, the 114 Provincial Anniversary Celebrations due to be held at the Toto Mayaba Stadium will see all manner of distinguished figures touching down in this …
Of ANC parties in general and Colesberg’s in particular: Part 1. Read More »
It’s a frequent coincidence here at Toverview: the team agrees to meet up anywhere in town but somehow always winds up ‘kicking it’ under the shaded seating area at Ouma Anna. At first it came with the territory, us being backwater journos and they the newest inkommers to Colesberg’s culinary society, the story simply couldn’t …
Not sure whether to chalk it up to wanderlust or babalaas or an invite to a seafood paella in a gustblown Karoo dorpie that had me riding shotgun in Tiago Rodrigues’s delivery van. Might’ve been all three, along with the languid boredom that’s always gnawing at the restlessness of those with nothing to do in …
Forget Ramaphosa or the GNU, it has been an unlikely Dr Piter Groenewald, leader of a minority party, who has unexpectedly found his name thrust into the national political discourse. Out of nowhere the Freedom Front Plus main ou has burst onto the scene, relentlessly popping up on the social media timeline and has had …
