Team SA’s outfits for the opening ceremony of the Olympics brought to mind an outing of the Voortrekker Youth …
AuthorCapo Cassidy
Results519
Begging for help to end the taxi wars
Being shot at, walking for miles and miles in the cold, losing their income: Horrified commuters ask: Where are the police? Where is the Army? Where are our leaders?
Violence in SA: an uprising of elites, not of the people
Blaming the poor for the recent violence is quite a typical response in our half-baked democracy, where all the old power structures and networks and etc remain intact
ShockšÆš horrorš²Covidš·š
There is a world of meaning in those little smiley faces …
Postcards from the edgy
A shocker of a week for some of us, but probably just another bleak and brutal week for most South Africans.
Caster Semenya is not to compete allowed but …
Caster Semenya, a lifelong woman who refuses to take medication to alter her naturally occurring high testosterone levels, is not allowed to take part in the Tokyo Olympics, although Laurel Hubbard, who was born a man, will compete as a member of New Zealandās weightlifting team
Last call for the Trolley Dollies at Gate 69
The Trolley Dollies ending their 5-year residency at Gate 69 with a final show
Level 4: what you need to know
Breakdown of what adjusted Level 4 lockdown, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday June 27, means (with thanks to the National Department of Health)
Bush life: delicious without the human beastliness
A few days in Kruger … enough said …
Water fight in the Sahel
With Cape Town’s severe drought in mind it is alarming to read in this article from The Conversation about the apparently outsized role of foreign private sector players in discussions over possible responses to the crisis at Lake Chad, including a proposal to divert water from the Congo River