Themba Maseko, the spokesperson for the Cabinet, today confirmed that the government is committed to accommodating the views expressed during public hearings on the Protection of Information Bill "as far as practicable and reasonable".
Maseko told...
I am a science-fiction lover. If this statement does not interest you, read no further; this blog post will mean nothing to you. (It might mean nothing to you anyway, but we’ll get to that later.)
Science fiction is a bit like quiche; people eit...
Just when African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema believed he had an iron grip on the Limpopo province following the banishing of former youth league chairperson Lehlogonolo Masoga via NEC disciplinary channels, along comes the...
By Lucky Ntuli
As South Africans, it is exhausting and frustrating to have to explain time and time again the behaviour of our politicians. In this particular case having to explain the childish, nonsensical, never amusing and utterly embarrassin...
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...
I am almost tempted to open this piece with a disclaimer stating that the views expressed here are not in any way a personal attack on the main character, but then again based on my main character's evident thrill from personally attacking people, wh...
Despite having had 16 years to adapt, the African National Congress still has to get to grips with democracy's separation of party and state. Instead, ANC interests are invariably paramount and it views even the sabotage of South Africa's national in...
In a world of stupid politicians, sometimes the most you can hope for is the opportunity to pay someone to do the right thing.
Barely a day goes by in South Africa without someone accusing someone else of being corrupt. Newspapers are filled with ...
Many South Africans have been asking this question for a number of years now but when the Scottish Sunday Herald starts making it a featured item then the time has come for us to put the question to ourselves.
The article is by Fred Bridgland, a...
When Juju and his supporters sing about killing farmers, I am sure the image they have in their minds is a man like Eugene Terre'Blanche. The so-called "boer" -- stuck in his verkrampte politics. A man who defines himself by racial rhetoric and old i...
