In a radio discussion about the failure, inability, refusal or a combination of these factors, by some residents of Soweto to pay for the electricity they consume, and when a man was asked during the same discussion if he was aware that the prevalent phenomenon of illegal electricity connections is a crime, his response was simply [...]
Walking around and talking to people at the SA Tourism-hosted annual Meetings Africa event in Sandton, one could easily forget all the usual noises that make many of us feel like a defeated nation and focus instead on the things that work. The Sandton Convention Centre, where this event is held, suddenly feels like Noah’s [...]
About three years ago, following the unmasking and subsequent demise of Bell Pottinger at the bitter height of the Zupta-led state capture, the ANC's spokesperson at the time went onto all media interviews he could attend to express disgust at this foreign company that arrived here to sow racial division and – wait for this [...]
A few weeks ago, President Ramaphosa stated that the 2019 general elections will be more important than the historic, racially inclusive, elections that ushered in our post-apartheid democratic order, in 1994. I disagreed with him then and I still do so now. But I will agree to a point if what he meant was that the 2019 [...]
Just over a year ago, before the ANC's 2017 elective conference that helped us start seeing the back of Zuma - well, more or less - and usher-in a 'New Dawn' of sorts, many South Africans were a lot more certain about whom they'd vote against and for than they seem to be today. South Africa's newly-minted president Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the National address at [...]