In a dramatic turnaround, South African journalists have welcomed the proposed changes to the Protection of Information Bill and the Media Appeals Tribunal, as vetted by the national government last month. The South African National Editors' Forum (S...
Since 1994, there has been a lot of talk about South Africa's lost generation -- the Y generation that is apathetic, apolitical, consumerist and vulnerable to a range of social ills, such as substance abuse and Aids.
More recently, we have heard ...
There are two words commonly used in South Africa which I really, really can't stand. The one is the word "comrade". The other one is the word "bokkie".
"Bokkie" is often used in insipid Afrikaans love songs by commercial singers (presumably becau...
The African National Congress Youth League in the Eastern Cape confirmed yesterday that it would be convening a congress in the province despite there being an interdict prohibiting it from doing so.
The youth league in the Eastern Cape previously...
Moloko Moloto, writing for IOL, was reporting yesterday that the ANC in Limpopo was considering reconvening the disputed youth league provincial conference which would come as a political blow to ANCYL president Julius Malema.
The gist of the arti...
Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, on Tuesday warned of the possibility of a split in the tripartite alliance if the ANC were to proceed with disciplinary charges.
Vavi, who is an ordinary member of t...
Like the ANCYL says, multiple concurrent partners are certainly not "fashionable" these days. HIV has made them decidedly untrendy. One thing that apparently is fashionable, however, and is getting a lot of southern African support, is homophobia. An...
When the African National Congress released a statement welcoming the national disciplinary committee's (NDC) decision against ANCYL president Julius Malema, they were at pains to point out that they had noted his plea of guilty and his show of remor...
While Business Day are suggesting a Malema guilty plea to shorten today's disciplinary hearing, IOL are speculating on points in limine being taken by the youth league president's advisers.
In the first instance the guilty plea, in return for a su...
I am battling to understand why the ANC top brass was "particularly offended" by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's comparison of President Jacob Zuma to his predecessor Thabo Mbeki.
For months now I have been making the same comparison my...
