Jacob Zuma casts doubt on the Constitution and the Mail & Guardian cuts the Africa section: what a week!
Insulting the dignity of the Constitutional Court is the sort of thing I expect to hear coming out of Julius Malema’s mouth; I didn’t ...
I am about to comprehensively lose confidence in the future of print media, especially newspapers, in South Africa. Worse, the major groups compound the problem by denying that not only are most of their black editors tokens but now confirming that t...
There has not been a time in the history of this country when so many blacks occupied the hot seat of editorship at mainstream newspapers, yet they lack political conviction.
The truth of the matter is that most black editors are fence-sitters who...
ANC members in particular and Eastern Cape residents in general must be a dumb lot, to leave their daily chores to listen to ANC leader Jacob Zuma delivering "empty promises". This will bring them nothing but penury and suffering as a result of decre...
NO ONE could hold it against you if you hadn't noticed the extent to which our news media are in crisis. After all, the traditional media are no longer the source of your really important news any more. And by "really important" I mean really importa...
Will the world ever be ready for a female American president? Especially, God forbid, one with bad fashion sense?
Look, I love Obama as much as the next South African. It was a thrilling election night: we were collectively moved and touched when ...
With his latest Sunday Times cartoon, Zapiro has ventured where angels should fear to tread. I am saying "should" because it shows that journalist-cartoonists can be as desensitised as other South Africans about the social crises that beset us.
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On Sunday August 24, the Sunday Times ran a headline story titled "Transnet sold our sea to foreigners", which reported as fact that Transnet had sold "our sea to foreigners", referring to the 90 square kilometres of sea and the 22km of coastline str...
Quality newspapers are in trouble. The local daily printed newspapers are in even bigger trouble. I know this because I am a news junkie, and I haven't bough a daily paper in ages. I even cancelled my subscription, and I am sucker for convenience.
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Philanthropy has spearheaded major movements globally including the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the hospice movement and now the fight against Aids. In the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, it was not government or busin...
