The book’s ambitiously called Jacob Zuma Speaks, but it’s actually what three prominent RET interlocutors think he said, reinterpreting those golden words for a post-pandemic world, or high noon of the New Dawn.
The ‘Ivermectin Karens’ are increasingly being joined by the equally virulent ‘RET-istas’
Corporate South Africa is starting to do its bit too, following on from universities.
Grinch Boris Johnson has stolen our Christmas with UK placing SA on their travel red list
The true tragedy in all of this is that there’s no vaccine for wilful stupidity.
A new season of possibility is being weighed down
This week was also the final instalment of the November 1 local government elections as the new councils began voting in their office bearers and metaphorically getting down to work.
The competence of the police needs to be questioned
If the little film clip shows us anything, it is that real life is a lot grittier, brutish and more ambiguous than a Hollywood police procedural.
An entire generation in South Africa is growing up never having known a life without load shedding
We’re now in our 14th year of rolling blackouts, which De Ruyter wants us to call load shedding, for without it we’d be really up shit creek without a paddle, apparently.
As the election results began streaming in, the political gaslighting ramped up
As the counting began, the political gaslighting ramped up.
It’s been a week of outrage but will it translate to the ballot box?
Social media doesn’t tell us if there’s any hope, probably because there is no nuance in limited characters and rational debate doesn’t get retweeted.
Anxiety and uncertainty over the Covid-19 vaccine rollout
The twitterati are arguing whether enough was done to speak to the Big Pharma companies earlier.
Is it safe for South Africans to raise their perennially lowered expectations?
You know when it’s election time; all of a sudden things start getting done.
Kevin Ritchie 