For many of us, it’s not really clear what the JMPD actually does.
A whole generation is growing up without ever knowing a time of uninterrupted power
People who have jobs are paying more to get to work, only to arrive late because they were stuck in traffic jams because the robots weren’t working.
DFA finds new fields to explore
It’s a local institution that’s given countless lucky young journalists an incalculable head start on their future careers. I’m one of them.
If John Steenhuisen wants a real war, why isn’t he packing his bags for Mozambique?
But no, he’s spent a week in a part of the world where he can make no difference, personally or professionally
These days, freedom of expression depends on who’s speaking
Elon Musk spent US$44-billion on buying the micro blogging social media platform – and the world lost its shit.
The canary and the frog in sea of incompetence and unaccountability
In other areas, the dysfunction isn’t as suddenly obvious.
Do we really have to keep wandering in the wilderness for the next 40 years?
As we prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday tomorrow, many of us might feel we’re actually reliving Passover.
The State of Disaster might have finally been lifted but we are still not free
We’re not free of the nonsense; of the conspiracy theories and pettiness.
The omens are looking bad for road safety this Easter weekend
The great lemming-like surge to either the coast or the Hinterland will be upon us – if the price of petrol hasn’t skyrocketed to new record levels by then.
Two years of Covid-19 – The lockdown regulations have not been the same for all South Africans
Lockdown was an Orwellian wet dream: Bheki Cele’s cops were great at stopping illicit booze and turning puffing blue rinsed grannies into forecourt hustlers, but not so good at stopping GBV behind closed doors. They were worse than useless when it came to open insurrection 15 months later.
Kevin Ritchie 