When Zweli Mkhize announced on Sunday night that the first million doses of Astra Zeneca wouldn’t work on the ‘South African” variant, the response was as torrential as it was intemperate. When he announced in the next breath that the vaccine was set to expire in a couple of months’ time; the haters went intoContinue reading “SA hates lies and deceit – and seems to hate honesty too”
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Booze ban: a cop-out for the real issues
The rationale for closing beaches and banning booze sales was to prevent a breakdown in social distancing.
Money to be made in hate
Social media should ban more people for spewing hatred and fomenting racism of any hue, instead their followers are complaining that their democratic rights are being abused.
A vexing and perplexing start to 2021
On December 31, every year, we all promise ourselves that the New Year will somehow be different. But our resolutions never really seem to work. The second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic is the best excuse yet not to hit the gyms – for fear of infection of course. There are plenty of other excuses though.
Don’t let your selfishness ruin the Christmas spirit for everyone
The armchair critics had a field day this week. George Orwell once proclaimed all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Here in South Africa, it’s the beaches. The tin foil hats and deep-staters are convinced this is WMC at play – or maybe it’s RET, because the problem with these lobbies is that the membership differs depending on whose Christmas present is being played with.
2020 in review – a year unlike any other
The curtain is about to come down on 2020, the most incredible year that any of us have ever lived through. This time last year, none of us could even spell Coronavirus, or even pronounce COVID 19.
Covid-19 proves to be a great leveller
And so, it came to pass that South Africa officially entered the second wave of COVID 19. In other news the final Rage scheduled for the year – in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa’s playground for the privileged – has been cancelled. The two are not unrelated.
Andile Lungisa was full of revolutionary fervour this week
It wasn’t 27 years, it was a bit more than 27 days, but that didn’t stop Andile Lungisa stretching out his traipse from Port Elizabeth’s St Alban’s prison to his victorious press conference as his own Long Walk to Freedom.
The raging torrents of Limpopo didn’t miraculously part for the Bushiri’s to walk across unhindered
His detention awaiting his bail hearing might not have been on the scale of the privations of the apostles, but there’s definitely something Moses-like about controversial pastor Shepherd Bushiri’s flight to Malawi last week
God save the dis-United State -for all of us
South Africans’ opinions of themselves have always been a little over-inflated. Nobody can be as awesome as us, we say pointing to a hat-trick of rugby world cups and an awesome 2010 soccer world cup for which we awarded ourselves a gold medal for hosting.
Kevin Ritchie 