On Monday night the story broke that South Africa’s Olympic medal winners wouldn’t be getting any financial reward for winning medals at the recent Tokyo Olympics that officially ended the day before. We only won three medals; a gold and a silver (plus a brace of Olympic records and a world record) by Tatiana SchoenmakerContinue reading “Sascoc deserves a gold medal for hypocrisy, expediency and opportunism”
Category Archives: Columns
Scenes of turmoil: Eerie symmetry in deaths and lack of accountability
Four presidents, trillions of dollars, 20 years – all to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
President Ramaphosa’s first cabinet reshuffle and the sacred, untouchables
This week has been a fascinating insight into the intersection between elites in politics and the elites in sport.
Rugby – A wonderful distraction from the horrors of July
It was the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly who uttered the immortal words, “some people think football’s a matter of life and death, I can assure you it’s much much more.”
It hasn’t been perfect but South Africa’s vaccine roll-out is gathering steam
There is still a sizeable growth in vaccine hesitancy – and die-hard anti-vaxxers, many of whom would rather pour sheep dip down their gullets and destroy their livers than take the risk of getting vaccinated.
Keep journalism honest – no matter how ugly the truth
If the media is properly free and independent, there’s going to come a time when it asks questions and runs stories that are deeply discomfiting, shaking our cosseted social media echo chambers.
We know what the cost of strong man politics is, we’re paying for it right now
What the wall-to-wall real media coverage on all channels has shown is that this latest wave of unrest has very little to do with outrage over the “people’s president” sitting in jail on a contempt charge.
Let’s vaccinate as many people as possible, we can worry about the anti-vaxxers later
There’s more risk in developing blood clots sitting on your arse eating a boerewors roll and drinking a beer as you watch the rugby than there is in getting vaccinated.
The government is trying to square the endless circle of lives vs livelihoods
CYRIL Ramaphosa must have he thought he was the anti-Christ this week. Well he was for the anti-vaxxers, but as they say in Afrikaans, if you don’t want to listen, you’ve to feel it. As the inimitable talk show host Lester Kiewit tweeted on Monday morning, finding anyone who didn’t break a single third-wave preventionContinue reading “The government is trying to square the endless circle of lives vs livelihoods”
The president’s joke that fell flat
Someone, he deadpanned on live TV, had stolen his iPad. Could they return it?
Kevin Ritchie 