Recent reports that President Jacob Zuma has fathered his twentieth child with a woman he is not married to have disturbing implications for the battle against HIV/Aids.
The three basic tenets of HIV prevention, used to great effect in Uganda in t...
Last week it was announced that Mugabe's Kimberley Process cronies have decided to give him until June to withdraw the soldiers in the Marange diamond fields. The army runs smuggling operations and use forced labour in mines whose profits benefit Zan...
Early last year I complained that the DA's image was too rich, too old, too white. I wrote, "Clearly brand DA is in need of a major overhaul, a major injection of cool. Its fusty look is rather reminiscent of what Woolworths was like 10 or 15 years a...
Once upon a time there was an African country that after several years of instability seemed to be moving shakily towards reform and democracy. Its ageing despotic president had signed a power-sharing deal with the opposition that created a unity gov...
Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe's eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.
This is according to a comprehensive report released last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW), th...
Let's face it: more than three months since its inception, Zimbabwe's so-called government of national unity is a failure.
This is a unity government in all but name. Oppression and coercion is embedded within its architecture, with the impotent o...
The ANC's plans to destabilise and distract Helen Zille from fulfilling her duties as premier shows the contempt that our ruling party has for democracy.
After several years of the ANC's chaotic mismanagement and paltry delivery, the Western Cape'...
On Freedom Day, to celebrate fifteen years of democracy, I launched The Soapbox -- a nonpartisan online platform where young South Africans can speak out about things they feel strongly about.
Why? Because South Africa is at a crossroads. Now more...
In a recent ANC Today post, President Kgalema Motlanthe rehashes an article he wrote in the run-up to the 1999 elections in which he criticised the then DP’s calls to prevent a two-thirds majority as “a fear of democracy”. In that decade-old pi...
On Sunday 29 March, a devastating article by Peter Hitchens on Jacob Zuma and South Africa’s future was published in Britain’s Daily Mail. Couched in a sickening, sensationalist discourse swirling with racist and colonialist undertones, the story...
A branding student and freelance writer, Alex Matthews blogs about politics and other animals at AFRODISSIDENT which was a runner-up for Best SA Blog About Politics and Best Original Writing on an SA Blog in both the 2008 and 2009 SA Blog Awards.
On April 27 Alex launched The Soapbox, an online platform where young South Africans can speak out about things they feel strongly about. The Soapbox aims to fight political and cultural apathy and to foster tolerance and a culture of intelligent debate among young South Africans. Join its Facebook group.
