Why it is that African countries have to go through the painful and expensive exercise of convincing the so-called first world that South Africa, in particular, is ready and capable of hosting the Fifa World Cup? We toiled culturally to showcase our rainbow nation as not barbaric, and politically to prove a matured democracy and […]
Joe Makhafola
Joe Makhafola spent the better part of his post-matric as a radio producer, presenter, a researcher for a current affairs television programme on SABC and a short stint as freelance journalist.
Though he has unfinished business with radio, his one passion remains radio. His last stint on radio was when he produced for the controversial Jon Qwelane at 702 Talk Radio. He lasted for three years in the corporate world as a media liaison officer and later a manager. He is currently serving the government he elected with loyalty as the spokesperson for the Minister of Communications.
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The minister and the law
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law; but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to *confute him, so said John Selden (1584-1654), posthumously published in Table Talk, 1689. There are four fundamental pieces of the law that set the boundaries […]