ANC’s ties to Russia

Nary a day goes by where the African National Congress, Africa’s oldest and most corrupt liberation movement, isn’t embroiled in one scandal or another. The latest smirch involves its possible, or likely – almost certain – involvement in sending arms to Russia in December 2022 to further its attack on Ukraine.  On the 11th of May …

2024 Elections

The South African General Elections are roughly two years away and indubitably the ANC are etching ala prison-style on Luthuli House walls the remaining days till they will have to magnanimously accept defeat for the first time since South Africa attained democracy.  The chasm between the pro Zuma faction, whose snouts have been firmly wedged …

Salman Rushdie

Last week when I heard that the international best-selling author Salman Rushdie had been stabbed in Western New York shortly after signing up to support writers living in mortal peril, it was the timing rather than the event that came as a surprise, if only for my acute appreciation of irony.The Indian-born British American novelist …

The Real Zuma Legacy

What state would South Africa be in today if Cyril Ramaphosa had succeeded Thabo Mbeki and not that delinquent from Nkandla who, as it stands, is still unpunished? I think it would be fair to say that our country would not parity the South Africa so close to the brink of collapse. A reasonable argument …

A Fool Learns Her Fate on April Fools

If current proceedings are anything to go by, then 2022 isn’t shaping out to be Bathabile Dlamini’s year. On 9 March, The former Minister of Social Development listened as Magistrate Betty Khumalo elaborated on how the guilty Dlamini perjured herself, lying under oath in 2017 about her role in the SASSA grant payment crises, overstepping …