Paddi Clay

Two minor storms in the local media teacup drew my attention this week and prompt some comment. The Daily Maverick online publication didn’t publish and

I received a WhatsApp message from a usually reliable source this week which was an African National Congress graphic notice of a Mini-Rally on 22

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Or, in the variant, ‘the country.’ It’s a familiar

A new assault is under way in the war of words that is as fierce as the air and ground war between Gaza and Israel

In acknowledgement of the traditional ‘silly season’, inspired by the rereading of a favourite ‘Christmas’ poem by TS Eliot and a recent presentation by former

Recently the ANC government’s romantic notion of itself as a liberation group, fighting for freedom for the people against an implacable, more powerful foe (an

One of the many vociferous little wars of words fought on the social medium known as X in the aftermath of the atrocious attack by

President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s own Inaction Man, has been striding the world of late, doing what he does best. Uttering platitudes on women empowerment,

Renovate, renew, repair, restore, revive, reinvigorate:  President Cyril Ramaphosa and Secretary-General of the African National Congress, Fikile Mbalula, are flinging these verbs about as if

You’d be hard pushed to find anyone in the developed world today, no matter how libertarian or how entranced by the polemics of Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society,