The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, It has been a bad and a good week for Cyril. His Party is supporting him and he is smiling notwithstanding the report on his action…
SLR
Simon Lincoln Reader, When I was visiting the UK in 1996 I got something I didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t want. Even then I was suspicious of football and…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Yesterday the committee set-up to look into the Phala Phala farm robbery made its report to the Speaker of Parliament. As at writing the contents of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, With the two day taxi strike in the Western Cape, Ramaphosa on the RED carpet in London, Zuma ordered to go back to jail, Janusz Walus…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The week kicked off with news dominated by attacks on Cyril from members in his own cabinet. Lindiwe Sisulu and Nkosasana Dlamini-Zuma have not missed an…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The story of the week must be the $8.5 billion offered by wealthy nations to SA to bolster energy supply and it is linked to a…
A shellacking?
Despite the encouraging polls, there’s a lot to be troubled by regarding Tuesday’s US midterm elections. Simon Lincoln Reader I know someone who knows Paul Pelosi and he says that…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The manner in which the BIG-shot super-arrogant Matshelo Koko and his collaborators were arrested on Thursday was fascinating. 8 of them were in the dock for…
Africa is Burning
Hannes Wessels, Only through listening, reading and learning from experience over many years have I become an unrepentant sceptic when it comes to the received wisdom of the time; the…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This week has been a news-frenzy time with day after day delivering huge political stories. On Friday and Saturday Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki spoke at…