You know something is wrong when Jackson Mthembu comes across as the reasonable voice in any debate.
The media is its own worst enemy in this whole brouhaha regarding potential media freedom infringements in the Protection of Information Bill and ...
A few weeks ago I was waiting in a very long queue at Pick n Pay. There were two young guys in front of me, dressed in overalls and waiting to pay for a loaf of bread and two pieces of chicken.
The one pointed at a newspaper near the till, its h...
I like Zapiro. I like that his cartoons are irreverent, provocative, incisive, humorous and hyperbolic; that no matter how ostensibly offensive, they are almost always perfectly on point. And I like that they piss powerful people off.
But not this...
"Africans are not a problem to Africa, it is the Europeans," said former British prime minister Harold Macmillan on recognition of the winds of change sweeping across Africa in the 1960s. Macmillan was speaking from an informed colonial position. Eur...
"To be or not to be, that is the question" that confronted Hamlet in William Shakespeare's classic tragedy of the same name. Hamlet is confronted with two important considerations, which pose to him a predicament of sorts; whether to reprimand his mo...
In 1961, Kwame Nkrumah said: ”Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, ...
The government this week sought to dismiss fears of a looming outbreak in xenophobia.
There has been talk since about just before the World Cup that there were rising tensions in squatter communities where large numbers of illegal immigrants live....
Zuma's performance agreements with government ministers are a toothless tiger. What's needed to drive performance and service delivery is bite.
Economist Mike Schüssler certainly didn't mince his words when he spoke at the 9th UASA South ...
There is no such thing as unbiased media, as the thing with my mother-in-law proved. Well, actually, it's not strictly necessary to draw my mother-in-law into this debate: anyone who had the misfortune of watching Sky News after the Germany vs Englan...
The exit of Bafana Bafana from the Soccer World Cup comes as a welcome relief. It at least means that those of us who kept stacking up stubborn hopes against good sense can swallow our disappointment and just enjoy the remaining games, without the th...
