This being South Africa, there’s always something to rejoice about – and just as quickly something to tear your hair out about.
Category Archives: Columns
Dis-Chem debacle – White privilege is alive and kicking
The Karens and their other halves have been seething ever since a letter by Dischem founder and MD Ivan Saltzman, banning the hiring of new white staff and promotion of existing white staff, was leaked at the weekend.
Our politicians take the cake, but ignore the warnings
The level of inequality in this country is so great that people will kill for jobs.
Coalition calamity and the allure of a dictatorship
Former newspaper-editor-turned-Joburg-councillor Martin Williams wrote in his column this week that he has served under seven mayors in seven years.
Eskom has monopolised the art of the public apology and patented the word “unfortunately”
Load shedding is serious.
Sticks and stones might break your bones, but words could lead to genocide
Cockroaches might have a particular Rwandan resonance, but they’ve been used as an epithet in our discourse before.
South Africa went from Nobel laureates to celebrating a pothole filling
Last weekend, South Africa segued from WTF to HTF. This is a country that doesn’t easily disappoint, there is a surprise almost around every corner.
The court of law can be a place of incredible drama and tension
Megan Markle was determined to speak her truth and she’s encouraged everyone else to shout theirs out too – except when theirs proves hers to be false. Advocate Dali Mpofu SC seems to be a great fan. He believes in his truth, sometimes even more than the canons of Roman Dutch law and the doctrineContinue reading “The court of law can be a place of incredible drama and tension”
What happened to honour among thieves?
In a corporate, the first sign that something’s rotten is when you don’t get paid at the end of the month, or if you did get paid it was only in part.
It’s time for South Africans to sing the same tune
Ellis Park is where the fairy tale of the modern Springbok era began with Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela holding the William Webb Elis trophy aloft in 1995 after the Boks won their inaugural Rugby World Cup. It’s a daunting place. It’s always been on the dodgy side of town – all that’s happened isContinue reading “It’s time for South Africans to sing the same tune”
Kevin Ritchie 