News/Politics

JZ has now put 20 candles on the cake of his loins. Twenty kids, five wives (or are there more yet?) and a whole lot of polygamous loving going on (wife or not). He very obviously has multiple wives, but he also has multiple partners — the latest baby’s mother was not married to him […]

Though many South Africans are of the view that polygamy is a lifestyle choice that is best left to those who decide to adopt it, the news that South African President Jacob Zuma has also fathered a child with Orlando Pirates owner Irvin Khoza’s daughter, may not sit quite as well. The president is now […]

The Independent Complaints Directorate has joined an array of Chapter Nine oversight institutions set up to secure SA’s new democracy, but which have subsided into ennui because the government has absolutely no intention of being constrained.

The harassment of e.tv journalists to produce the criminals who were part of their exposé is a direct result of the knee-jerk reaction that our crime fighting strategy has become in South Africa. Someone must have briefed the government security cluster and said that rough street justice is going to win the day. I am […]

By Loammi Wolf The envisaged pardons for Shaik in exchange for setting Eugene de Kock and 179 IFP political offenders free, raise several constitutional issues. Before I say a few words about the constitutional tenability of pardoning with the separation of powers in a constitutional state, I would like to focus on the pardoning of […]

Though the deportation of the head of the British Islam Channel, Mohamed Ali Harrath, has been temporarily blocked by an interim interdict, the questions regarding the basis for his arrest and continued detention — at this stage — have yet to be explained by police authorities or the government. Accepting for the moment that Interpol […]

Why is it that gay people are so hated on this continent? What makes people in Africa want to murder, imprison or beat up on them? And before you start telling me it is a tribal thing, a black thing or a whatever thing, I can tell you a lot of white Africans don’t like […]

Maybe rising to the challenge would be a good start. Sociologists agree that few facets of the human experience so effectively transcend divisions to unite people as being able to communicate with each other effectively. To do this, a shared “language” is indispensable. Whether it be the spoken word, signing for deaf people, semaphore or […]

Just as I was drafting the final instalment of my reflections on the state of the Congress of the People (Cope) one year after its much celebrated launch, the party took the wind from under my sails. Luckily I was not the only one, as the party simultaneously dealt a blow to its Youth Movement […]

I understand that the people of South Africa, having been denied their God-given rights to be free for more than 400 years, are anxious for the achievement of our aspirations for human development and recognition as people of integrity and capabilities both of which are things that have been denied and ignored by our erstwhile […]

There are many reasons for the overseas media’s palpitations, bordering on hysteria, about the supposed dangers of travelling to SA. Interwoven are aspects of parochialism, ignorance and racism.

By Jason Hickel “But we can’t eat rights, hawu!” Those five words of protest that usher from the lips of South Africa’s underclass sting like a slap in the face. Good liberals will always take offence. We find ourselves scrambling desperately to battle the mad claim that “things were better under apartheid”. “But of what […]