David Bullard
After 27 years in financial markets in London and Johannesburg David Bullard had a mid life career change and started writing for the Sunday Times. His "Out to Lunch" column ran for 14 years and was generally acknowledged to be one of the best read columns in SA with a readership of 1.7mln every week. Bullard was sacked by the ST for writing a "racist" column in 2008 and carried on writing for a variety of online publications and magazines. He currently writes for dailyfriend.co.za and politicsweb.co.za.
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Fantasy of the Nation Address more accurately reflects our unreality
Listening to the parliamentary debate following last week’s SONA speech by the President it occurred to me that maybe it should be renamed FONA (Fantasy
Marvel comics meets SONA
SONA II proves that the more promises of change there are, the more things are likely to stay the same. You know how it is….you
Geneva junket all in a day’s not half decent work
But if ‘decent work’ really is what the International Labour Organisation’s conference is all about, rather than slumming it in Switzerland, why not hold it
Does Ace in the pack trump the king?
We are often told Cyril Ramaphosa is playing the ‘long game’, but it would be useful to know how long it is, exactly, and whether
Memo to Cabinet
If you really want economic growth you’ll have to ignore those who regard financial success as evidence of class exploitation. In September of 2002, the
No easy task ahead for Ramaphosa
Much of the problem is that most of our politicians are committed communists and haven’t a clue about free market economies. I thought President Ramaphosa’s
Travel through a rubbish tip
A trip through spectacular vistas became a trip through an endless rubbish dump. I’ve been slacking these past two weeks. Truth is, I was in
Justice was neither done nor seen to be done
It’s now eleven years since I was “sacked” from the Sunday Times for writing a “racist” column which the editor chose to publish. The editor
Pre-election lunacy masquerading as manifesto expansion
One of the concomitant pleasures that come with a looming general election is the opportunity to listen to representatives of parties contesting the election attempt
People are not ‘vermin’, Phillip
Are whites going to be punished for imagined sins? Phillip Dexter says they are. I drove home last week to the sight of a plume