So I’m finally getting around to weighing in on the Kuli Roberts thing. I’ll go ahead and say right upfront: I don’t have the answers, don’t even have an answer. Just a lot of questions, mainly. Also, plenty of others have already offered opinions, so my adding my two cents’ worth won’t add much to […]
2011
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Where exactly is the Absa Premiership title race heading?
The Absa Premiership race is fast approaching the home straight. Orlando Pirates are favourites to lift the league trophy but it’s almost certain that this race will be decided in the last three matches of the season. Today I am looking at the top contenders’ chances of winning the league title. Orlando Pirates The Buccaneers […]
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An attack against the Protector is an attack on the people of SA
The South African Police Service has confirmed that it will be investigating an allegedly unauthorised raid by crime intelligence officials yesterday evening at the offices of the Public Protector in Pretoria. Police spokeperson McIntosh Polela told Sapa today: “We condemn the raid and we didn’t sanction it and we are launching an investigation to deal […]
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Emperors celebrate in birthday suits
Two presidents. Two birthdays. One month. One region. This is the story of presidents Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Brightson Webster Ryson Thom, otherwise known as Bingu wa Mutharika (Malawi). Mugabe was born February 21 1924. Mutharika 10 years and three days later. Last week, the pair celebrated their birthdays, Mugabe his 87th and […]
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The problem with coloureds…
By Kim Smith One of my favourite quotes from former president Thabo Mbeki is: “One of the things that became clear and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can’t question.” What sets the pre-Socratic thinkers apart, what causes […]
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Timing of Manyi outrage suspicious
Much has been made of the scathing letter addressed to Black Management Forum leader Jimmy Manyi by Trevor Manuel, the minister of national planning. Noted academic and analyst Adam Habib surmised as much yesterday saying “strategic calculations are being made about the Western Cape. I cannot imagine that he has not consulted widely on this […]
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Max, the TRIBE has spoken
I must admit that I am enlightened by the insights of so many racial identity experts who make their views known in the variety of media available to South Africans of all shades and persuasions. It seems that every time I read a newspaper or log on to a social media site, I can read […]
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A double shot of white guilt, on the rocks please
Reality is a bitch, that’s why I like mine in small doses and preferably heavily diluted. This is particularly true of a reality that is either embarrassing or indefensible and especially when that reality is in some way my own creation. Take, for example, some of my undeniably embarrassing and inexcusable behaviour. Like most South […]
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Charlie’s crazy, Kuli’s crazy, Gaddafi’s crazy — we’re ALL crazy
It’s been going around. Even Barack Obama is crazy. Instead of sending Libya’s hallucinating leader some anti-psychotics, he accuses him of delusions of grandeur and strategically positions his navy close-by ready to fight craziness with craziness. That’s crazy. The same type of crazy Pravin Gordhan must be if he thinks we’ll stop partying if he […]
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A watershed moment in Franco-South African relations
By Olivier Brochenin This year is an important one for the bilateral relationship between France and South Africa. In 2011 France has assumed a double presidency of the G8 and G20, South Africa has been accepted as a rotating member of the United Nations Security Council and Durban will host COP 17, where the international […]
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Do you get me?
Protest on the part of the citizens of a country is a way of making their displeasure or grievances known to governing authorities, whether these have been elected or occupy their positions by inheritance, as it were, in the case of royalty. In the case of despots abusing their governing positions beyond the level of […]
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I wouldn’t fire Kuli Roberts
There is nothing that Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts can say or do that will justify or excuse her racist bilge and at a time like this it might be opportune to consider bringing back the death penalty for people like her. Outrageous? Well South Africa that’s pretty much what you sound like about now. […]