2011

I once read somewhere or overheard someone define a genius: a person who does what no other person has done before or is not afraid to say things that others are afraid to say. In am not interested in the correctness or falsity of this stamen. In South Africa, there is a pervasive culture of […]

By Sally Evans Two weeks ago, I wrote a story about former Gauteng crime intelligence boss Joey Mabasa’s gun allegedly being used to kill strip club tycoon Lolly Jackson. It made me realise how far this story has come since Jackson’s death a year ago, and the unimaginable journey it has led me on as […]

By Suren Pillay Growing up in the Cape, we were taught that we were “Western”. How do we explain and undo this colonial sensibility? From my location at a university, there are two realisations from which to proceed. Firstly, the history of knowledge production, and the history of the organisation of knowledge — the ways […]

By Mike Mathabela A day before the recent local government elections, a racial incident occurred that almost derailed my resolve to, for the first time, vote for the DA. I was almost run down by a burly white male who proceeded to hurl demeaning expletives including the K-word at me after I had run to […]

The ANC Youth League often refers to the Freedom Charter when citing a basis upon which it relies for introducing nationalisation and land expropriation. Bloomberg.com quotes ANC Youth League president Julius Malema as saying that “the call of nationalisation is what is required by the Freedom Charter”. He said this in an interview on Johannesburg-based […]

By Hannine Drake Sanef called it bribery. The DA called it a gross abuse of power. Zapiro called it a metaphor (sort of). The already beleaguered media received yet another blow recently when Cabinet in true Machiavellian fashion approved the centralisation of the spending of its estimated R1 billion yearly advertising budget under the Government Communication […]