The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Two top news stories dominated our newspapers this week and either of them may make it to our news item of the year. The first exploded…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This week’s Sunday papers paint a deeply depressing picture of SA today. Hospitals like Baragwanath, the largest hospital in Africa are not functioning properly because they…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Monday (Workers Day) was a holiday and whereas I don’t often agree with statements from NUMSA, our largest workers’ trade union, when on Monday they declared…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Over the weekend the press reported that several Ministers are bickering with each other over methods to address our electricity crisis. The Min of Energy, Gwede…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Thabo Bester is quite a character. The convicted murderer, rapist and con-man not only ran a successful business from his jail cell but he even had…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Jeremy Gordin (70) experienced editor, author and poet, recently retired but as the wonderful journalist he was was still extremely active with regular weekly columns for…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again Last Friday Business Day featured an editorial “SA spiralling and into a gangster state” The murders, rapes and robberies are simply too terrifying for words and…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The main news this week, and we were all expecting it, was on Monday when Julius Malema called for a day of shut-down. Malema called for…
The Week That Was,
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This has been a bad, bad week for us and next week threatens to be worse. This week a four year old child at a play-school…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, At last Cyril, after keeping us waiting for almost two months announced his cabinet changes on Monday evening with fully half of the country in darkness…