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…
“The Minister for Los Angeles County Schools will address His Majesty King Charles III shortly”
Simon Lincoln Reader, We’ve heard the c-word a lot this week, much of it deliberate mispronunciation of Jeremy Hunt’s surname. But after today, not a single member of C…erm, Hunt’s…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, When the DA discovered that Cyril had secretly amended the ministerial handbook to give his bloated cabinet even more perks—free electricity and water, as much as…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The City Press newspaper on Sunday led with the story of Cyril’s (our) grossly bloated cabinet comprising 62 Ministers & Deputies. The mean size average of…