The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Eskom is a disaster. For the first time ever more than half of its generating capacity was out of service this week. Load shedding has been…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, SONA, the State of the Nation address by Cyril last Thursday night pushed Tottenham Hotspur and the proposed tourism deal right off the front pages of…
BALTOPS 22 a Disaster
Will Keys I have just finished writing a book. It is with the publisher and called ‘Perfidy, meaning untrustworthy or deceptive. In chapter one, I start with an evolutionary analysis…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Tottenham Hotspur. Very often, OK nearly always, I end these newsletters mentioning the Spurs’ results but never have I started with a Spurs story. The English…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, I really would have liked this week’s review to have been bright and breezy with all sorts of positivity begining to show while we enjoy this…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Again this week’s news is still mostly about our electricity supply……or more accurately, lack thereof. We are all hoping that with winter coming soon things will…
The Horse is Bolting
Jacinda Ardern leaves New Zealand poorer, less safe and more stupid. Simon Lincoln Reader In February I’ll be attending the Biznews conference where I hope Alec will ask me about…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, The biggest story of the week is not that Jacob Zuma lost yet another ‘stalingrad-delaying’ battle in court — this time to try to get Cyril…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Two days before the announcement of his sudden and dramatic resignation as the CEO of Eskom became public Andre de Ruyter was poisoned. De Ruyter was…
A Lawless World
Hannes Wessels, At a time of year when many of us like to rejoice in the company of close friends and family while celebrating the good things in life my…