In his speech on Monday last week (12 July), Cyril Ramaphosa reminded us twice that he was commander-in-chief of the defence force. But by the

The idea that it is permissible or even admirable to steal from or destroy the establishment, be it business in the local mall or employers

‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’, seems to be a proverb that the South African government has adopted wholesale. The yet

In May of 1976 the chairperson of the West Rand Administration Board, which had taken over the administration of Soweto three years earlier, told the

‘There is no food, no medicine, there is no freedom.’ Such was the cry of anguish from one of the desperate protesters in the recent

In the Netflix documentary that is bound to be made sometime in the future on what is South Africa’s most cataclysmic post-apartheid political event, the

‘Synchronously’ is not a word I have ever used: it means ‘happening, or arising, at precisely the same time’. It is apt for these times,

Something that has stuck in my mind ever since I first read Long Walk To Freedom about a decade ago is the evidence of Nelson

AT the outset, readers need to know that I am deeply suspicious of large financial institutions – though perhaps not so deeply antagonistic as Rolling

As the week began, South Africa was confronted with scenes illustrating a sinister underside to the country. Television viewers couldn’t avoid it. Reporters traversed pillaged