"No, we haven't seen any lions yet."
The lady from the BBC radio station sat across from me in our lounge, fidgeting with her recording equipment. Her face was serious; perhaps she had not realised I was only joking?
They had driven from Cape ...
You know it's been a slow day in the news world when Lynda Odendaal joining the ANC is a main story on the evening news.
The former Cope second deputy president and lead organiser of a new independent civil-society initiative announced she had joi...
Twenty years after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and with all the doom and gloom going around, there is one issue that has upset me for a while. It's not HIV/Aids, or crime, or violence against women, or unemployment, or the lack of prop...
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille is treading a very fine line in claiming that Western Cape Community Safety MEC Lennit Max's alleged extra-marital affair is a private matter and that until allegations of sexual harassment have been proved agai...
The Democratic Alliance and African National Congress have issued statements welcoming President Jacob Zuma's apology that he "deeply regretted" the pain he caused his family, the ANC and South Africans after revelations that he fathered a child out ...
Had this been any other country (with the possible exception of Italy), there would have been an uproar over the latest instalment in the increasingly scandalous public life of Jacob Zuma. It astonishes me that there has not been spontaneous calls fo...
So on the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest weeks in our entire history as a nation, what is South Africa talking about? What may have transpired from Pres Zuma's crotch area.
A lot has been said, shouted, defended and alleged, but as things...
1. In an attempt to quell the simmering leadership tensions, Cope will adopt a rolling substitution policy for its top positions. The Rev Dandala will deny that this undermines his leadership in any way and offer that it is a shining victory for demo...
2009 revealed some incredible things to the ordinary person. It was a startling year jam packed with scandal, drama and some serious historical events. A blog is just too short to list all of them, so excuse the number of links here. Hope you enjoy.
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As South Africans approached their elections earlier this year, many were apprehensive about the favours that were owed by the then presumptive President Jacob Zuma to the left wing of the ANC, Cosatu, the SA Communist party and the ANC Youth League....
