News/Politics

As an official blogger and egomaniac I thought that it was incumbent upon me to make my position clear given the current state of our nation. The desire to write this endorsement is also driven by the false notion that people might take what I have to say seriously. As the title suggests, I fully […]

I followed the US presidential election about as closely as anyone living outside the United States could. There were many highs and lows along the way, but in the end, team Obama prevailed. When it was all over, commentators the world over gushed with praise for the progress America had made. And rightly so. I […]

The constitution of the Republic of South Africa makes no provision for election of a ceremonial president; but we have observed in the last few months that the country has no executive head of state. Since being sworn into office after the unceremonious departure of Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe has been pandering to the whims […]

What is the world coming to when African leaders can’t take their hard earned money and pop over to Europe for a spot of rest, perhaps purchase the odd car or two and pick up a decent bit of property? Dear oh dear oh dear. It seems that the French chapter of Transparency International (headquarters […]

The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, have done more than just expose the difficulty in containing and responding to global terrorism. They have also exposed a fair amount of limp and shallow journalism, dished up in large swathes by local and international press. Upon hearing about the attacks, my first reaction was to try […]

Submitted Anton I. Botha If Cope, or even Obama, is serious about radical change (as promised) and thereby improving the lives of all people, they should not have to look beyond the reform of our current energy supply paradigm. One could go so far as to ask “why don’t both of them offer the people […]

The death toll in Zimbabwe is rising while Morgan Tsvangirai continues to place his personal and selfish ambitions before the plight of millions of Zimbabweans who have been subjected to misery. The ruins of Zimbabwe are nothing to do with Tsvangirai but he has been party to sustaining the downward spiral of the economy by […]

Starvation, Aids and cholera have now been joined by an outbreak of anthrax, which has already killed two children and one adult in Zimbabwe. The killer infection is threatening to wipe out around 60 000 livestock in the northern Zambezi valley thereby compounding the horrific problem of starvation facing five-million locals. An acute disease, anthrax […]

I met with Mbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, general secretary of Cosatu and now convenor of the new Congress of the People Party this morning and asked him to give me his views on matters of concern to South Africans both here at home and abroad. This was his take. On Cope The majority […]