2011

In my previous blog “Don’t gamble away SA’s future” I question the future of a country not providing proper education. So we’re halfway through the year and there hasn’t been a peep out of the political hacks regarding their plans to ensure education standards, particularly for the matriculants, will be improved and the tinkering down […]

Perhaps it’s time the public put on its thinking cap and ask: what has the media got to lose if chief government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi pulls the plug on the government’s R1 billion advertising spend? It would mean huge losses for the private shareholders of many companies. We must understand that the government is not obliged […]

Last month renowned scholar Mahmood Mamdani wrote “An African Reflection of Tahrir Square” where he linked the Egyptian uprising to the 1976 Soweto uprisings. “Ordinary people stopped thinking of struggle as something waged by professional fighters, armed guerrillas, with the people cheering from the stands, but as a popular movement with ordinary people as key […]

I don’t know when it hit me but it was during my first year as a young reporter in 1985 when I had just joined City Press newspaper fresh from studying communications at Fort Hare University. That was when I noticed that newspaper journalists, sub-editors, columnists and editors in every publication have, unavoidably, a particular […]