The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again Three or four really big stories dominated the headlines in our press this week. Marcus Jooste (63) killed himself. Jooste headed up the Steinhoff Group of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The ANC held their manifesto congress for the upcoming general election in the voter-rich province of KZN. They managed to fill the Moses Mabhida Stadium in…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, SONA was a disaster for Cyril. Most of the press this week had full ‘goes’ at Ramaphosa for a pathetically weak State of the Nation address…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, A great deal of our news this week has been about the judgement from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) brought by SA against Israel. Ramaphosa…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again Three stories dominated our news this week. Thursday and Friday were all about SA taking Israel to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) accusing them of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again As expected Ramaphosa made his ‘Fellow South Africans’-New Years’ speech. When the radio station crossed to him, for the first minute or so there was nothing…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Politics played itself out on the front pages of our newspapers this week and I imagine as we get nearer to our general election this will…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The attitude of our government and the militant anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic) marches this week-end in Sea Point are extremely disconcerting. On Sunday police had to be…
The Hijacking of the Rugby World Cup
Hannes Wessels, In my view, a fabulous World Cup Rugby final was wrecked the moment an overweight, billionaire, political opportunist by the name of Cyril Ramaphosa waddled with all possible…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, We are reasonably used to spring tides but this past weekend we saw something else; a Spring Tide like we have never seen before. The waves…