The counter-revolution is in full swing. The African National Congress (ANC) is, in the words of our deputy president, at war with itself. The Cabinet too. The tight coterie around …
Notoriously, he can’t keep his pecker in his pocket. As infamously, he has a long history of being unable to keep his hands out of other people’s pockets. And almost …
To my astonishment, for our passage to Robben Island to scatter the ashes of a former political prisoner, the ferry was called ‘Jester’. At first, under an overcast grey sky …
Gold mining has been the crucible of modern South Africa: a source of relentless conflict as well as the generator of prodigious fortunes and incalculable misery.
The unimaginably long defensive wall, we are told, “was intended, as was universally proclaimed and known, to be a protection against the peoples of the north”.
How little some things change as President Jacob Zuma begins his fight to keep his job and possibly stay out of jail for corruption
All over the world the frustration of those who feel excluded or socially disinherited seems to be bursting into populist, often incoherent fury, from redneck Trumpery in the United States …
Stench of fortunes made on carnage and racial abuse
This fractured nation is in a downward spiral
The art and technique of always landing on your feet
Mapping the truth of the human cost of Empire
‘Transformation’, but a depressing lack of change
The reckless, the feckless and a banker coup d’etat
Self-serving rhetoric was again on display at the recent African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg – culminating in the narrow escape by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir after a South African …
Perceptions of liberalism in both black and white
Fantasy formulas from the stereotype factory
Rhodes the racist and criminal must fall again
‘Swing low’ – high praise for historian of slavery
ANC government should sound like it and act like it
Jacob Zuma’s toxic legacy could be bankruptcy
We’re further back on the defensive against strangers
Deep pockets mean the best chance of redemption
Greed has no colour and the injustice lives on
