Real Dutchmen & Beetroot
(Politics)
HIV. A seemingly insurmountable hurdle. When the last Spaniard and Dutchman (the authentic kind I might add), have finally left our shores it will be high time for policy makers [...]
Read More- Posted on 13th Jul 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 1 comments
Dear Mr. Black – My Correspondence With An Effing Legend
(Zeitgeist)
Its not often one gets touched by greatness so when it does happen you really need to make a pig of yourself. Last weak I wrote an email to former [...]
Read More- Posted on 2nd Jul 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 4 comments
Vavi’s Political “vastrap”
(Politics)
The key event last week was the threat, implied and real, that Cosatu will leave the Tripartite Alliance if its general secretary, the ebullient and outspoken Zwelinzima Vavi, is charged [...]
Read More- Posted on 12th Jun 2010
by David Gleason - 0 comments
Live By The Vote, Die By The Panga
(Politics)
On April 27th 1994 South Africa held its first election based on universal suffrage and thus affected a peaceful transfer of power to the African National Congress led by Nelson [...]
Read More- Posted on 12th Apr 2010
by Hannes Wessels - 4 comments
The Summer Of Our Discontent
(Politics)
“Everything is about politics,” said the late Helen Suzman. And, yes, it is, which is why it is impossible to review commerce, businesses and the economy while pretending that the [...]
Read More- Posted on 9th Apr 2010
by David Gleason - 3 comments