William Saunderson-Meyer

This was the first post-democracy election in which there has been a real contestation for power.

The best conceivable result for African National Congress supporters in next week’s local government elections is not a landslide win for their party. Paradoxically, in delivery terms best result would be a vastly improved showing by the opposition parties. Local government is in collapse. Corruption and incompetence are not only costing billions, but have eroded […]

Should the British media wish to treat the newly minted Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with the sycophancy that one associates with that which the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation accords Mad Bob, on their own bowed heads be it.

Flanked by the Dracula Princess, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, to stress his Struggle authenticity, Malema gleefully exploited the moment to proclaim that it was not he who was on trial, but the Revolution itself.

Would messages from atheists denying the existence of a deity have to be balanced with messages from fundamentalist militants calling for the death of non-believers?

Geographically isolated and politically marginalised, the struggle of the Malagasy people against exploitation never manages to catch the world’s attention for quite long enough to make a difference.

It was a lack of good form rather than a threat to freedom of speech that sparked the SA Human Rights Commission’s pique over the booing of Patricia de Lille.

Not a week passes without some ANC luminary, of manifestly pure heart and clear conscience, promising in soulful soliloquy to the news cameras that the government will not tolerate malfeasance an instant longer. This week it was the turn of the Minister in the Presidency, Collins Chabane, who railed against the “scourge of corruption”, in […]

That the actions of the two senior counter-intelligence cops were unexpected, unauthorised, and probably illegal was of little interest to the ANC.

It should be called the SA National Defunct Force. After all, it has soldiers that it cannot deploy, ships that it cannot sail, and aircraft that it cannot fly.

The self-styled King of Africa – and more mundanely the recipient of the Order of Good Hope, SA’s highest award to a foreigner – was adept at buying influence with his petro-dollars.

Despite a probably genuine belief in press freedom, the DA has an uneasy relationship with the media.