I sense the coming day's density around midnight, and try to pull out. A late text that my work is overwhelming -- I must stay in cyberspace tomorrow, wrestling invisible work giants. I am drawn to and repelled by the meeting, menisci kissing before ...
To be rich would be a wonderful thing. Now, I don't mean to have a nice car and a nice home, but really rich. Rich like a Kennedy or a Bush. Rich like the GDP of a small to medium country. Because when you are rich, when you are famous and absolutely...
By Suntosh Pillay
Truth is always stranger than fiction. Malema, after all, went to Zimbabwe to learn economics from Robert Mugabe. In fact, the ANC Youth League's "study-tour programme", where eight of Malema's cronies will travel to China, Chile...
In March of 1991 after months of nationalistic propaganda and other divisive rhetoric from Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman, a small group of Serbs and Croats clashed in the Plitvice Lakes National Park on the border between these two countries....
Though former president Thabo Mbeki was often guilty, to a fault, of defending his administration, nothing could have prepared South Africans for the inappropriate appointments and point-blank refusal to accept wrongdoing among those who occupy posit...
Truth be told, black people are not interested in the confessions of white people who suffer guilt from the sins of colonialism and apartheid or those who accused Nelson Mandela of selling out.
In the 21st century where both colonialism and aparth...
"We needed it [this fund] back in 2002," said Gugulethu Moyo, new director of the Media Legal Defence Initiative, referring to the Mugabe government's suppression of the Daily News eight years back.
The company owning the paper still sat with...
This whole world, especially the African continent, is fast running out of leadership material.
When you look around, it is very easy to see successful men and women who have "made it" in politics or business, whatever that means.
In fact, the ...
Old Mutual says its investments are dictated by profit and not political considerations.
The insurance giant was reacting to a call to shed its investment in the Zimbabwean company that prints the Mugabe government's propaganda mouthpiece, The He...
I honestly don't think I can stomach another indignant person imploring "the West" to "do something about Zimbabwe". This gem is usually delivered on the back of some hack thesis about the hypocritical invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to free them f...
