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 World That Was
Sunday 30 April – Sunday 7 May: Adrian Olivier, In the early hours of Wednesday morning, two drones targeted the Kremlin complex of buildings in Moscow, the attack being caught…
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…
Singularity – ChatGPT – Old Rupert
Let’s talk about the evolution of Artificial General Intelligence, or ‘AI’, which has been a popular topic in science fiction for decades. Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the “Technological Singularity,”…
After The ‘Palefaces’.
Hannes Wessels, If you have a heart in Africa it’s probably not a good idea to read Martin Meredith’s State of Africa because if you do, it will all in…
The Greatest Crime of All Time
The people of this world need to understand what has just happened to us, and why, and (even more importantly) what WILL happen to us if we continue to allow…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 23 April – Sunday 30 April On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden finally and formally announced his running for a second term as President of the United…
Book Review: Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
By Andrew Field The British Empire has been overly criticised, so much so that some, like the book’s author, view this as a “slanderous caricature that equates British colonialism with…
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 World That Was
Adrian Olivier, In China, quarter 1 GDP growth has been higher than expected at 4.5% beating the estimates of 4% growth from a Reuters poll of economists. Chinese consumers went…