Almost as soon as the squad was read out, the conspiracy theorists and keyboard warriors hit cyber space with their theories and vented their spleen.
Category Archives: Columns
The controversy around Julius Malema’s comments opens up the genocide debate
Singing “Kill the Boer, the farmer, Phrrr pah” isn’t a clarion call to the melanin challenged to pack for Perth, but it was already weaponised as such on social media.
VIP Protection cops – an appalling act of vicious bullying
On July 2, eight members of deputy president Paul Mashatile’s SAPS protection detail pulled over a VW Polo on the M1. They got out and started kicking the four occupants,
Joburg CBD gas explosion – the system remains rotten
This week City Power, Johannesburg’s metropolitan power supplier, announced that it would no longer replace electrical wiring stolen by cable thieves.
Stadium management must play its part when things get heated
No sooner had the final whistle blown on the 42-12 win than some of the spectators started moering each other in true Pretoria fashion – and they were all Bok supporters.
Carping Point: SAPS VIP protection unit – the only solution is to disband ‘blue light bullies’ in its current form
There has been much anger and disbelief after footage of two BMW M5s stopping on the N1 just past Fourways in Johannesburg showing six men getting out and beating up three people in another car went viral this week.
A glum Cyril Ramaphosa is a real nowhere man
There are plenty of plans – and often it seems like a commission of enquiry and/or a committee for each.
What next, a Minister of Earthquakes?
There was a tremor measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale just after 2.30am on Sunday morning.
Eusebius McKaiser’s death has robbed us of an important, independent and increasingly dissenting voice
Larger than life, literally and figuratively; he was loud, proud and unashamed.
Load shedding – Insurers take dim view despite government’s insistence that everything is under control
South Africans with short term policies have been receiving policy updates from their underwriters recently warning that they aren’t covered in the case of a total grid collapse.
Kevin Ritchie 