Hello and welcome! This little weekly column will present politics at its most absurd. SAtired supports freedom of speech, small government and free markets. This means we’re

Film review: Malcolm and Marie Director: Sam Levinson; Screenplay: Sam Levinson; Cast: Zendaya and John David Washington (Released: 29 January 2021) Rating: 10/10 A couple’s

One of the excellent points made by Brian Pottinger in his 2009 book, The Mbeki Legacy, relates to the palpable frustration felt by South Africa’s

Nakedly self-serving politicians, from Cyril Ramaphosa on down, laid claim to the first vaccines rolled out in South Africa, making healthcare workers who put their

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 12th February 2019 – The country known as the Republic of Macedonia

Despite the many pious platitudes in last week’s SONA (state-of-the-nation address), the only ‘reforms’ President Cyril Ramaphosa is busy implementing are the policy shifts needed

South Africa’s cabinet will be proposing the Contingente Internacional de médicos especializados en situaciones de desastre y graves epidemias ‘Henry Reeve’ – the Cuban ‘medical

One of the constant goals put forward in State of the Nation Addresses has been greater job creation. Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa said one

Professor Ruth Hall of the University of the Western Cape’s Institute for Poverty, Land & Agrarian Studies began a lengthy defence of the government’s Expropriation

The state of the nation is terrible. Government is committed to making it worse. Saint Cyril won’t stand in its way. Cyril Ramaphosa was never