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…
Power Without Prosperity: Southern Africa’s Year of Stagnation
Andrew Field, Southern Africa in 2025 was a region still caught in its own contradictions. Governments spent the year juggling conflict, corruption dressed as governance, and the maintenance of power,…
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
RAMAPHOSA and STARMER
Hannes Wessels, It was with a sense of almost total despair that I read recently of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech when opening Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Show in Harare recently.…
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 Trust Factor.
Hannes Wessels. I see, in his recent address to the South African parliament President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke glowingly of the significant strides that have been made in the last 31…
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…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, What has taken place in the Middle East this week has shunted our political focus to the back-burner. Everybody, the whole world, was watching America going…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Cyril is at it again. He is organising a talk-shop. A “National Dialogue” starting in August. To quote Ivor Vegter in the Daily Friend “If there…