From the time the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad set the world alight, it's been clear that cartooning -- the right to draw -- will be at the epicentre of media freedom debates.
South Africa's been a tinder-box too since ANC president Jacob Zum...
Post-Polokwane, our country has lost its standing. I realised this as ANC president Jacob Zuma fell backwards on his arse during his fourth wedding celebrations. He laughed good-naturedly, as he does, as his loincloth rose to reveal a set of legs ton...
The ego of a politician, I've decided, rests less on the size of the manaconda (as my colleague Niren Tolsi so eloquently describes the penis) than on the size of the convoy. For a full week now, we've been bullied off roads by minor pols with big co...
I am bourgeois. There it is. Admitted. Along with my other big B friends and acquaintances, I trekked to the Network Lounge for "proper" coffee. "Proper" coffee being ground coffee, not the Ricoffy on sale at the student canteen next to the media cen...
Sunday will go down as the day on which President Thabo Mbeki lost the leadership of the ANC, but it's party chairperson Terror Lekota who goes home with the biggest headache.
What a day! It's never been this good (for journalists) and so bad (for...
Here is why people are so afraid to "debate" Ronald Suresh Roberts. After last week's post in which I objected to Ronald's name-calling, I called him and explained why he'd really pissed me off. I know him and believe that he has a great mind that sh...
Ronald Suresh Roberts tests my commitment to freedom of expression. When I read his blog calling Mondli Makhanya a chicken, I wanted it taken down off Thought Leader.
But to do that would be to abuse the space as he has abused it. Abused it by pa...
