I have long held that our sports commentators are pretty weak. It is an evident fact to all that to be on TV, particularly for SuperSport you simply have to have played the game at a high level. I can name only two South African commentators that deserve to be given my attention, Bob Skinstad […]
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For the Sunday Times, transparency should be the new credibility
It was only after Business Day published, that the Sunday Times proffered an editorial comment – feebly asking the public to feel free to complain about any perceived problems.
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Why being a child of Africa is the greatest privilege I know
By Elsabe van Vuuren Around the world there is a sentiment of feeling sorry for Africa and her children. In Vienna, Prague, Frankfurt and London I often came across big containers for dumping donations on the street. And each time the container featured a sorry looking picture of African children, their eyes hollow and numb. […]
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Thinking Africa from the Cape
By Suren Pillay Growing up in the Cape, we were taught that we were “Western”. How do we explain and undo this colonial sensibility? From my location at a university, there are two realisations from which to proceed. Firstly, the history of knowledge production, and the history of the organisation of knowledge — the ways […]
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Of mice and Malema
The re-election of Julius Malema as president of the ANC Youth League came as no surprise. The platform afforded him by the court challenge to his singing “the song whose name will not be mentioned” settled any doubt as to his intelligence, the fact of him being so articulate also consolidated his support base. As […]
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The lone vulture circles Zuma
While five years is a short time in power, 18 months is a long time in politics.
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SA’s fallen and can’t get up
In my previous blog “Don’t gamble away SA’s future” I question the future of a country not providing proper education. So we’re halfway through the year and there hasn’t been a peep out of the political hacks regarding their plans to ensure education standards, particularly for the matriculants, will be improved and the tinkering down […]
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Celebrating the Consumer Act
It’s taken me a little while, but I’m truly starting to understand and revel in the full implications of the Consumer Protection Act brought into effect in March this year. The introduction of the CPA, along with some personal experiences in the first half of this year have certainly fuelled the fire of my desire […]
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The media mafia
I don’t know when it hit me but it was during my first year as a young reporter in 1985 when I had just joined City Press newspaper fresh from studying communications at Fort Hare University. That was when I noticed that newspaper journalists, sub-editors, columnists and editors in every publication have, unavoidably, a particular […]
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Superman, at a school near you…
The “village” and your family are supposed to be the first school everyone is exposed to. They’re supposed to teach us the fundamentals of living harmoniously together and sharing this world with others. But both the school and family are fighting for their very survival in today’s so-called modern forms of social organisation. The township […]
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Our blind adherence to the monogamy ideal poses a health risk
By Rachel Nyaradzo Adams Some of you may immediately smirk with a resounding no! The more cynical among us though may have already started on the thought process of acknowledging that non-monogamous behaviour within marriages and “serious” relationships is a reality. But we would rather not interrogate the ideal lest we undo a firm system […]
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What a media tribunal means
By Glenda Daniels I wonder if the media appeals tribunal the ANC wants so badly will happen. Raymond Louw, deputy chairperson of the media freedom committee at the South African National Editor’s Forum (Sanef), who I interviewed on Wednesday reflected that it would, but in about a year’s time, after an investigation into its feasibility […]