By Zukiswa Mqolomba It is a worrying sign indeed when the leadership of the African National Congress can use its weight in strong and uncritical defence of the ANCYL president, a symptom of the burgeoning trend among its ranks of greed, avarice and an insatiable appetite to amass personal wealth, while millions of South Africans […]
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Food for Africa
By Andrew Tayton and Dulcie Krige Africa, as we all know only too well, is a continent with severe agricultural problems such as widespread poor soils and water deficits. In addition the problems of poverty make transport and marketing of food crops far more difficult than they are in the West. This has led seed […]
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How good are we?
By Duncan Newton Keal At the completion of the test series between India and South Africa, a series touted as being the ‘world championship’ of Test cricket, I can not help wondering how good South African really is. When the Proteas made history by beating Australia, in Australia, many heralded it the rise of a […]
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Why has Cape Town restricted anti-apartheid heroes to township streets?
Twenty years after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and with all the doom and gloom going around, there is one issue that has upset me for a while. It’s not HIV/Aids, or crime, or violence against women, or unemployment, or the lack of proper housing for poor people, or drug abuse on the […]
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Black economic extortion, Malema style
If we had a national genie, my three requests to her would be: To make us a country rich in the resource of leadership defined by wisdom, vision and integrity; To make us a forward-looking nation, while never forgetting our past; and To enact sufficient social and economic justice to foster a genuine sense of […]
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Dropping zipper against the wind?
I’m sorry. This is not about the fractious Malema, Zuma’s ever-growing brood or Eugene Terre’Blanche’s horse. My bone picking is of a different nature, and not as busy as JZ’s. My face-off is at odds with issues of corruption, feminism and accounting. My general apathy towards things that don’t have a direct influence on my […]
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SA Rugby’s precedent — pride or prejudice?
é On March 5, SA Rugby nominations for President, Deputy President and Vice President, must be received in writing, from both the nominees accepting the nomination, as well as those doing the nomination, for the SA Rugby elections that will take place on the March 26. It is really quite simple. SA Rugby’s 14 unions […]
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Invictus: Hollywood pretends to learn from Mandela
Since its release last December Invictus has caused quite a stir among American movie-goers, garnering relatively high reviews from critics, bagging third place among box-office openers, taking home a series of award nominations, and — perhaps most importantly — winning airtime on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. But while director Clint Eastwood’s successes with this […]
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Cope’s flirting with ‘imperialists’ and ‘white interest’
Recent utterances from Cope Youth Movement (CopeYM) leaders on a potential strategic cooperation with other opposition parties stand as a testament to a total lack of political education and complete ignorance about political strategy. Such unfortunate and lamentable actions will not only harm the prospects and interests of the broader organisation in the long run, […]
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The God-Fearing People’s Party
I was watching the news yesterday for some reason, I must have been either really bored, comatose or my housemate was forcing “current affairs” (aka what the media is punting for their mates that day) on me and I saw a report on some of the commentary that was presented on the State of the […]
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Zuma’s address…disappointing, wasn’t it?
By Zukiswa Mqolomba Firstly, I would like to welcome the input from the progressive alliance, particularly of the ANCYL, for its rather generous appraisal of the State of the Nation address. Individual loyalties generally die hard, even in the face of damning sentiment reflected by its receipt by mainstream society. When we are willing to […]
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Zuma’s a cultural coward
By Michael Baillie “Zuma’s conduct is un-African”. Not my words, but those of an “expert” as quoted in a news article I read recently. But what on earth does it mean? On face value it could mean that Zuma’s actions were not African in nature, that in someway they were not representative of what it […]