It is in fact the most difficult thing to choose the party with which one will associate; indeed it is a choice that most have not had to make, given that most of the politicians in South Africa were either born into their parties, or they were recruited at a young age, or they climbed […]
Avishkar Govender
Avishkar Govender is the Chief Political Officer of MicroGene.
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Pick n Pay highlights our redundant tribalism
After 15 years of evading the demon of tribalism, we the minorities of South Africa have been shamed for our parochial outlook and ethnic enclaves by the new Pick n Pay advert. In line with their new branding, Pick n Pay has released new television adverts which drive the message that Pick n Pay is […]
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Zille: Donatella Quixote
By making a decision to introduce legislation, which will ban officials from doing business with the state, the DA proves that collectively they have no clue about eradicating corruption. Indeed, while yes, there are loopholes which allow for the state to be pillaged by people who have been entrusted with running the state, and yes, […]
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Abraham’s sacrifice
And thus it began … God commanded Abraham, “Take your son, your favoured one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:2). Abraham obeyed. He packed wood for the offering and a firestone and headed off with Isaac to the appointed place. […]
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Between state and God
The object of every anti-disestablishmentarian is to ensure that the state and the church remain enjoined and act as one. On the one side we have the all-seeing power of God, which gives credence to the other side where we have the all knowing power of the monarchy whose monopoly over the threat of violence […]
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Nah, it’s in Durban we trust
Six weeks was all the time I gave Johannesburg to impress me with its might and splendour. And in just six weeks I have decided that one would have to be completely crackers to live anywhere but in Durban. So last night I bid farewell to the sprawling dichotomy of the southern labour camps and […]
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Vote for free education
To my fellow students I am given once again to reflect on the pathetic leadership provided to the students of South Africa by the ANC government, and in this case by the SACP’s Minister Blade Nzimande, and the ANC’s Youth Militia of Cosas, Sasco, ANCYL, YCL and PYA. I recall that they all promised us […]
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Where is our Ann Coulter?
I have never met Ann Coulter. I doubt that I’m important enough to warrant an invitation to an event of the Young Republicans, and certainly I’m not conservative enough to be considered “one of them”. On the one occasion that I invited Ms Coulter to an online debate on “liberalism vs conservatism — finding the […]
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The forbidden trek
In blatant defiance of Siener van Rensburg, I have made the trek from the balmy sunshine of Durban to the nippy chill of Johannesburg and don’t I wonder why. Having discovered that my comrades in the taxi industry are about to get shafted by the Rea Vaya (Rapid Bus thingamajig), and that it takes 1 […]
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The Chilian Club: A book recommendation
The year was 2003, it was at the end of July and I was exploring the streets of lower Polokwane’s CBD in an attempt to map out the locations of every place that sold anything with a little chilli in it. Apart from the real Vetkoek Paleis and a decent Halaal Diner, there was not […]
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We must scrap the prohibition of prostitution
We must scrap the prohibition of prostitution, because it unfairly discriminates against women who demand their money upfront. We all, as stupid men, have had cause in our lives to wonder why the state of gender parity has changed so that women are now equal but such that the demands made by women upon men […]