Paddi Clay

When we have got through this muddled, chaotic period in the life of our country, where the black dog of depression is running wild, I

Staying with friends in Cape Town, I did not have to rush around the house sealing fridges or switching off appliances prior to load shedding.

In 1653, controversial English statesman Oliver Cromwell scathingly dismissed the minimalist parliament he’d established to draft election plans for a new reformed parliament, which included

Once upon a time (actually about the same time a certain Panel was delivering a finding that would cause some ‘rep en roer’, some unexpected

It may surprise you, although if you are a liberal it should not, that although I am a feminist I don’t hold with the romantic

This day I sit down to write is different to all other days of the preceding weeks. It is the first day in a very

On ‘Spring’ day this year the pupils of Alexandra High School in Gauteng celebrated by throwing chairs about and spraying fire extinguishers all over the

Raymond Aron, French intellectual and the author of Opium of the Intellectuals, believed politics rather than revolution was the way to change society for the betterment of all. He

When things got really tough for ordinary citizens a few weeks ago, when the weather boffins were giving Johannesburg a bone-chilling outlook of at least

‘Coalition country’ looks pretty uninspiring currently. A few announcements of improved systems, a round or two of pothole repairs, much ambitious, even grandiose planning. Someone