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.
Polony flavoured cheese and Zondo Commission testimony part of an incredulous week in SA
Pliny the Elder once wrote there’s always something new out of Africa. He could well have been referring to the Zondo Commission on State Capture where SAA Board member Yakhe Kwinana held an entire country transfixed by her answers on Monday and Tuesday.
Tito Mboweni handling Munusamy outcry with same nonchalance as criticism of his cooking
In typical Tito Mboweni style the issue was done and dusted by Wednesday night – openly and unequivocally. Ranjeni Munusamy, explained his spokesman, had been appointed under the minister’s prerogative as stipulated in the ministerial handbook. So there.
Senekal murder: Keeping quiet just plays into the hands of the unrehabilitated racists
It started with a scripture reading and a prayer – and ended up with a police van being upended and torched. More than 1000 people turned up to protest at Senekal in the Eastern Free State earlier this week, ostensibly to show support for the family of Brendin Horner, the young farm foreman who was beaten to death and then strung up on a pole last Friday.
Kevin Ritchie 