Simon Lincoln Reader

A new centrist bloc is reportedly being formed between South African opposition parties − namely Musi Maimane’s BOSA, Songezo Zibi’s Rise Mzansi and Patricia de

If reports are true − that following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call on Monday night (IST) with US President Donald Trump, he phoned South African President Cyril

The South African government is concerned by the volume of anti-transformation talk it is encountering, but it’s not really the government, as that’s supposed to

I doubt there is a face across America, Europe or Africa whose chin isn’t dripping with fake news − even if the owners of the

In November 2023 The Guardian newspaper suffered a seizure. The cause wasn’t Donald Trump, it was Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei. The newspaper wasn’t in

I’m not usually one for people’s bedrooms, but a feature of Britain’s Online Safety Act (OSA) kicks in today, meaning that mandatory age verification is

The best way to deal with scammers is to torture them emotionally. When a message lands in my social media inbox from an “Angel Hernandez”

Bidvest is exposed as discriminating against impoverished white toddlers, so Solidarity’s Chief Executive, Dirk Hermann, writes them a letter. Bidvest then responds not through its

On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang convened a press conference. She looked buggered, hungover and depressed. She didn’t break out into

Three weeks ago I met US Senator Bernie Sanders in London. He was on publicity rounds for his new book, meeting with a few crusty