Some councils are in a death spiral, with the closest those residents ever coming to basic services is seeing the phrase written on an election poster.
Val Boje embodied the trinity of qualities to be a great editor, and so much more
The great editors of the Pretoria News fought tooth and nail to keep the paper alive, successfully fighting off the grasping efforts of the bean counters and the management illuminati.
Heritage Day long weekend: Let’s all be lekker together
It’s a long weekend, but it’s not just any long weekend, it’s the Heritage Day long weekend. National Braai Day has seamlessly morphed into a three-day fest of sizzling boerewors, steaming pap and chakalaka; definitely beer and probably brandy.
Elections 2021: Save us from the election poster pollution
The ANC administrative chaos and factionalism are a rare gift for opposition parties.
Covid-19: Get the vaccine or jail yourself at home
Last weekend, a guest at a bachelor’s party on a game farm decided to hand feed a rhino some grass. The rhino was a mother with a calf at hoof. She had a sense of humour failure and tossed him out of the way using her horn. He landed on his ankle pulverising it. He’s lucky she didn’t stamp on it – or him. Then again, the same bunch of partygoers thought it might have been fun to strip the groom naked and tie him up in the veld, where there were other dangerous wild animals about.
Vaccine hesitancy: Why it’s time to create no-vaxx, no-go areas
The 18-34 cohort turned out in their droves this week, putting their elders to shame.
Sascoc deserves a gold medal for hypocrisy, expediency and opportunism
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”
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.”