Reflections From The Southern Tip.
Hannes Wessels, When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently dispatched himself, along with a small army of security personnel, to Russia and Ukraine, to bestow upon Presidents Putin and Zelensky,…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, It probably won’t surprise too many to learn that the President was exonerated by the acting public protector (PP) –she who needs the approval of the…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Week after week the biggest talking point in our country is the effect that load shedding has on all of us and the economy. Fikile Mbalula,…
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, 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…
Good Prescience – Bad Prescience
Will Keys, Prescience: “The fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge”. I contrast and compare the 45th POTUS, Donald Trump, previously a NYC property developer with the South African born…
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…