
Why is the government buying cars for traditional leaders?
- By Tiego Thotse
- . Dec 6, 2023
Why the South African government pays traditional leaders’ wages is incomprehensible, as is the fact that the government also purchases their cars. It has been

Ending loadshedding: green or greener?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Dec 5, 2023
The DA is punting wind and solar. Ramokgopa is punting coal. Who is right? And where is nuclear? The electricity minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, upon whose

A Bleak Friday
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Dec 4, 2023
Black Friday is the emblem of a consumer society in all its gaudy, excessive glory. We get to spend large sums of money on temporarily

How to improve sport
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Dec 3, 2023
How can we make sports better – more exciting, safer, simpler, more interesting, more popular, more unpredictable? I am away from home and my books,

Because Jesus plays rugby for the first team, that’s why
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Dec 3, 2023
When I was small, I thought God spoke Afrikaans and the Afrikaners were the chosen people. This simple truth was evident in the fact that

Why does Cricket SA not learn from the Springboks?
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Dec 2, 2023
Everybody loves a winner, and this is currently nowhere more true than in South Africa where everyone (judging from social media videos) from townships to

Racist upbringing is child abuse
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Dec 1, 2023
A 15-year-old boy uttered a racial slur. The mob, led by the EFF, took umbrage and went after him. Imagine my surprise to wake up

The well-kept secret of South Africa’s regime of censorship and ideological gerrymandering
- By Martin van Staden
- . Nov 30, 2023
Various repressive laws that explicitly or implicitly allow government to censor or manipulate free expression and discourse are already on the Statute Book in South

2024 Elections: A watershed if the ANC gets less than 50 percent
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Nov 29, 2023
The national and provincial elections next year could be a watershed in our post-1994 history. There is a good chance that the African National Congress

The ANC’s concerns for South Africans – a *bitterer gelechte
- By Paddi Clay
- . Nov 29, 2023
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