The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again In the Sunday Times this week, William Gumede writes about Ramaphosa’s recycling of failed ministers in his new cabinet. He writes that the ANC is tone-deaf…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 30 June – Sunday 7 July: On Sunday, French voters gave Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party a first-round election win. The RN and their allies led…
Britain To The Fore!
Hannes Wessels, Recently, more information has come into the public domain about the British plans to intervene militarily in order to bring the ‘Rebel Rhodesian’ government to heel in the…
The World That Was
Adrian Oliver, Sunday 23 June – Sunday 30 June: On Sunday, Russia accused the United States of setting the coordinates for a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with five U.S.-supplied Army…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, As many of you will know Jacob Zuma is not my favourite politician. If I told you though that I am eternally grateful to him for…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 16 June – Sunday 23 June: On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his war cabinet – a week after opposition leader Benny Gantz withdrew from…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again Our election results have brought a new era of politics into our country. “In many ways, SA is a different country this morning and in many…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 9 June – Sunday 16 June: On Sunday, results from the European Parliament elections were announced, massively disrupting politics in several European countries as the far-right parties…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, As to be expected, after the general election with the “kindof” hoped-for results that we received, this week’s news has been ‘politics 24/7’. The ANC is…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Notwithstanding the pollsters warning us that we were in for political upheaval at our general election the final vote tally surprised many. I’m almost certain that nobody expected…