We are not quite sure what to make of the comprehensive shifting of the deck chairs on the glacially-slow-moving Super-Tanker, The Ramaphosa. Reshuffle was definitely the
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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
Mother Nature is on fire again
Burn it to the ground, build it up again. Remind you of something?
Corruption? Van Riebeeck started it
Apartheid was surely the most corrupt of all systems … colonialism doesn’t even bear thinking about …
Dear comrades, let’s be more comradely
Cyril Ramaphosa’s letter to his ‘comrades’ about the scourge of corruption gives us all a little more oxygen
Desperate times in the beloved country
South Africa’s hospitality industry is bleeding, even the most successful businesses are under threat and begging to be allowed to get back to work
Tobacco ban still burns, 100 days in
The ban on tobacco sales makes no sense at all. Unfortunately, it proves that in SA crime pays
Banana republics of the north
Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic are turning long-held ideas about the first world and the third world on their head
Let’s flatten the TB curve next
The global response to Covid-19 has been inspiring. Meanwhile TB (for which there has been a treatment for 100 years!) is still the leading cause of death in South Africa
We are not your naughty children
A respected businessman asks how this lot who so recently turned a blind eye to State Capture get to play the irritated parents now