The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The press has been unanimous this week with its criticism of Ramaphosa for his lack of communication. He has not only kept the Phala Phala farm…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 18 June – Sunday 25 June: It has been a particularly memorable week… After arriving on Sunday in Beijing in the first trip by a U.S. official…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The embarrassing incompetence of the SA Civil Service was glaringly exposed on the weekend for the whole world to see. Our President had gathered some African…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 11 June – Sunday 18 June: On Monday, Italian media tycoon, politician, and billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi, who served as prime minister in 4 governments between 1994 and…
The Big, BIG Picture
Will Keys, In the foreseeable future, significant changes are expected to occur in the relative influences exerted by countries upon one another. In this essay, I will refer to these…
The Silencing of Sense
Hannes Wessels, Years ago when BBC boss of Television, Danny Cohen, fired the brash but funny petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson from his job at Top Gear, I was struck by the…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 4 June – Sunday 11 June: On Sunday OPEC+ members (OPEC and 10 other countries, the most important of which is Russia) agreed to a new output…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, One of the reasons that cholera is spreading in this country is the horrific condition of the water in so many towns. The Auditor General delivered…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 28 May – Sunday 4 June: On Sunday, Belarus’ leader since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko (a former director of a state farm) bizarrely announced “nuclear weapons for everyone”…
Battle of Bakhmut
Adrian Olivier, When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, part of Russia’s war aims were to capture the region known as the Donbas, made up of the two oblasts…