News/Politics

As many of you may be aware the Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain has had four bouts of cancer and is 72 years of age, which, if he is successful, would make him the oldest first-term president in US history. With this in mind the possibility of Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, following […]

You just have to love the irony of it all, notwithstanding the unbelievable spin that would have made Goebbels proud. Mrs Family Values, John McRage’s somewhat quirky running mate, has a pregnant teenage daughter. Now just because I was chaste as a youngster is no reason to frown on those who indulge. And I don’t. […]

“For the past nine months we seem to have been held collectively hostage to the crude politics of revenge and manipulation. Our political discourse has been crude and divisive, not only from the ANCYL but also from the alliance partners. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) […]

Maybe I owe an apology to Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance? I harshly criticised her earlier this year for challenging the constitutionality of the Erasmus Commission of Enquiry set up by then Premier Ebrahim Rasool, arguing that she appeared shifty and less than honest. I was particularly scathing of her criticism of Judge […]

Opportunism and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances are arguably some of the prime ingredients of success in business. The changing political landscape in South Africa has required some business leaders to re-evaluate their political positioning. Under the Mbeki administration, there had been accusations that those who were closely aligned to the party heavyweights, […]

There are some pretty uncomfortable questions we ought to ask of the African National Congress, for its own sake and ours as a nation. Regardless of what people think of the ANC, our fates are bound to it. It is for this reason that everyone must show interest in its dealings. We cannot follow sheepishly […]

The left wing of the blogosphere and the liberal media have gone tilt at the nomination of Sarah Palin as presumptive vice-presidential nominee. Hordes of Democratic investigators and journalists are pouring into Alaska in the hope of digging up any dirt on the former beauty queen turned politician. If panic is a sign that Senator […]

For starters, the Republican VP candidate allegedly hid her daughter’s pregnancy and claimed the baby as her own. Also, she had only met McCain once prior to the nomination announcement (and the phone call between the two regarding the nomination was the only other point of direct contact). She does not believe that humans are […]

If the ANC were ever to contemplate handing over two-thirds of its seats in parliament or in the provincial legislatures to the SACP and Cosatu it would be tantamount to a bloodless coup. “THE Young Communist League called on the African National Congress (ANC) yesterday to give up two-thirds of its seats in parliament and […]

Disclaimer: This is a reprint of an article I wrote in 2005 and was subsequently published by an online newspaper, NewZimbabwe.com. In re-reading it, I noticed that it still applies to the current situation surrounding negotiations. One needs only replace a few words such as “elections” with “negotiations” and everything will read as if it […]