The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The Ramaphosa-faction in the ANC got a strong boost this weekend when Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal, to you)—the first of the eight provinces to hold its conference…
A Nation On Its Knees.
Hannes Wessels, With a growing sense of despair I read of moves afoot to remove a statue of David Livingstone which currently stands on Cathedral Square in Glasgow. This is…
Doomed by the Virtue Signallers
Hannes Wessels, For a long time I have been trying to understand the psychosis gripping the western world; the driving force behind electing politicians dedicated to destroying their countries, and…
The Ezekiel Hibbie-Jibbies
Will Keys, Uninformable – Urban Dictionary. Means: Someone who cannot be informed, generally due to not wanting to understand your point of view or are extremely stuck in their ways.…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, “The ANC has morphed from a liberation movement into a criminal syndicate”. This quote from senior political journalist Bhekisisa Mncube, whose new book The Ramaphosa Chronicles…
Stop Poking The Bear
Will Keys, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”. These famous words were spoken in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and down came the Iron Curtain. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Non-SA news very seldom (other than sport, of course) makes it into these newsletters but it’s hard to start a newsletter at this time without mentioning…
Give War a Chance?
Simon Lincoln Reader, Whew boy, gotta tell you, I was mighty relieved at Naledi Pandor’s reassurance that she was mediating between Russia and Ukraine, because I was myself inches away…
An Avoidable War
by Hannes Wessels A regrettable tragedy is unfolding in Ukraine. This may well be the biggest war in Europe since the end of WWII and the great powers are dangerously…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Thursday evening saw President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering his SONA (State of the Nation Address). The venue was Cape Town’s classically beautiful City Hall, because the Houses…