News/Politics

I am one of the most decisive people that I know. “Come on Chook, let’s go live in China,” I brightly announced one day to my wife in England after being “let go” from my second job (I was a terrible salesman by England’s cut-throat standards). “Okay,” she said, “hmmm … sounds interesting”. So, amid […]

Leah Chishugi, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide and a trained nurse, went into the DRC and filmed the testimony of over 400 women who were raped and abused by militias in flare-ups in the eastern regions of the Congo. The Guardian (UK) carries footage of her coverage. In November 2007 South Africa (and Angola) […]

In 1992, in the face of pro-apartheid political dissent, FW de Klerk boldly threw down the glove and asked for a yes or no referendum, made available only to white people. He asked the white people of South Africa if they wanted to move towards true democracy and abolish apartheid. South African whites responded with […]

Rosa Mitterer, a former maid in the employ of the mass murderer and Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler (1931 to 1935) has finally decided to break her silence and share some of her wonderful memories with us. The fact that it has taken this 91-year-old woman a mere 63 years after World War II to reach […]

This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Cockroaches and ‘killing for Zuma’: Why do our political leaders invoke violent language?

The path towards the establishment of a socialist state appears to have been cleared of all impediments. If the draft ANC election manifesto is anything to go by, the influence the SA Communist Party (SACP) on ANC policy is no longer a matter of ambiguity. The ANC under Jacob Zuma has modelled itself as the […]

#345: Ad-hoc SWAT Team Last Wednesday I sent a mate of mine a sms enquiring as to just what the bleeding blazes was going on in Mumbai. I had for a while thought it was an elaborate ploy by the E.C.B. to divert attention from Kevin Pietersens teams apparent relish for a solid on-field rogering […]

Although Sky New’s Emma Hurd’s figure of 10 000 Zimbabweans crossing into South Africa every month is yet to be confirmed, it will certainly be in the ballpark as disease and starvation grips our northern neighbour. Their towns and cities are becoming more of a death camp than a place fit for human beings to […]

Much has been said recently about our political leaders using threatening blue light police escorts. The blue light scandals have left KwaZulu-Natal reeling from the shocking behaviour of our political elite that has become a predatory and reckless burden on society. This clearly leads us to question the quality of our leadership. We all know […]