How to be a better person
Will Keys In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Polonius says to Laertes “To thine Own Self Be True”. John Adams argued that this was bad advice. “Thine Own Self” is likely to…
Quinton Capitulates
Hannes Wessels When Quinton De Kock stood fast and refused to obey the order from CSA (Cricket South Africa) to get down on his knees and pay due homage to…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Here there is always plenty of political news and with the municipal elections just four days away the heat has been truly turned up. Then, as…
REVIEW: On Her Majesty’s Secret Puberty Blockers
Simon Lincoln Reader Nothing can articulate just how bad the new Bond is. I WAS RAISED ON Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only, Moonraker, A View to a Kill and Live…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Being a prospective councillor comes with life-threatening stresses. A few months ago a prospective councillor was shot dead in the Northern Province. Now an EFF prospect…
Who Will Save The West?
Will Keys Former President Donald Trump and inventor-extraordinaire, South African born Elon Musk, despite having little in common in so many ways, share some characteristics. They are both driven by…
License to Kill
Hannes Wessels Having lived all my life in Africa I feel I am well placed to write about institutionalized racism and selective application of the law, simply because I have…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, As expected many of the news stories this week are connected to the upcoming municipal elections in a little more than two weeks time. The political…
Where To Run To?
Hannes Wessels We who live here in southern Africa are unsurprised by misrule; I have lived under the cosh of dishonest and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats for most of my…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, The weekend news was dominated by the political parties delivering their election manifestos ahead of the Municipal Elections in five weeks time and…… some very depressing…