So, what can save Johannesburg?
Downtown Johannesburg is fast becoming a new type of hell where criminal gangs run buildings and disasters strike. Within two months this year, one of
China’s contemptible nuclear fearmongering over Fukushima
The release of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has raised entirely baseless fears. The three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi
Pull yourself out of poverty, says Mantashe… well, here’s how
Speaking on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit after a meeting with Brazilian president Lula da Silva, Minister Gwede Mantashe appealed to South Africans to
How knowledge provocateurs abuse trust
The commitment of many leading media organisations and universities, locally and internationally, to objectively scrutinise events has been corrupted by pervasive ‘knowledge provocateurs’. The assertion
We are led by a charming, treacherous weakling
The latest people to be betrayed by Cyril Ramaphosa are the people of Zimbabwe. After yet another blatantly crooked election there, so crooked in fact
Overexposure to undemocratic states doesn’t end well
Never at a loss for simpering, oleaginous words, UN Secretary General Antonió Guterres was in customary form at the recent 15th BRICS summit when he
Cherish the devil
Take care of your devils, dear friends. Make sure their fangs stay jagged and their horns pointy. File their barbed tails till they cut like
The devastating consequences of a lie
In telling our story, I am reminded of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who famously said that if you repeat a lie often enough, it
How should the Multi-Party Charter see its role if it wins?
While debates will rage about whether the Multi-Party Charter will have the numbers it needs to win or not (or whether it will lead to
Academic contest is a (dirty) fighting sport, and so it should be
The Daily Friend rarely shies away from entering the South African political ring. Readers and writers alike get right down into the arena. Whether a