The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The whole country waited with baited breath on Thursday morning to hear what the sentence that was to be meted out to Julius Malema by the…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, In my absence, the two biggest stories to emerge from South Africa were the intensifying political tensions ahead of the upcoming elections, and the ongoing economic…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, At last, things are happening. A top-shot ANC cadre fingered at the Zondo Commission received a proper jail sentence. Vincent Smith, once a powerful MP and…
The Week That Was
Hello again Geordin Hill-Lewis of Cape Town and Solly Msimanga of Johannesburg are the two leading figures in the race for the leadership of the DA. The election will be…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, There have been severe weather events for weeks in the northern provinces and particularly in Limpopo. It was so bad that the Kruger National Park was…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, I’m back from Australia and it’s hard to know where to start so much has happened. The
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, For me one of the main news stories of this week was about the recent poll substantiating last week’s DA poll, showing a dramatic loss of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Most of the news here this week has been about the dithering of the ANC towards Trump’s tariff threat and how DIRCO (The Department of International…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This week there has been some very negative press on Cyril and his lack of leadership and I’m not surprised. On Friday, Isaac Mashaba writing an…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, We are getting used to political bombshells and two Sundays ago an enormous explosion caused by Lt.-General Makhwanazi shook the SA landscape and caused forceful reverberations…