You have heard it said that a vote for anyone other than the ANC is a vote well spent. Well-intentioned as it may be, that isn’t technically true. For example, a vote for the Economic Freedom Fighters is worse than voting for the ANC, in spite of all the damage the ruling party has done to South Africa over the …
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 2023, the United States’ ambassador …
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 in the trough since 2007, …
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 enjoyed success eliciting only a …
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 can be made that while …
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 in her position as minister …
The ANC has a long history of poor decision-making, and giving R50-million to their friends in that commie nest Cuba is the latest addition to that endless list. We are told the reason we gifted Cuba funds is to alleviate poverty in that country. Being a marxist state run by dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel, the more likely outcome is the money …
Hearing the word censorship is enough to make most people stop what they’re doing for just a moment and take note. There’s a good reason for that too. Throughout the ages history’s greatest villains have used censorship in one form or another to achieve control over its people and the dissemination of information. And while South Africa has always held …
Dear Jihadists It has come to my attention that you are planning an attack on our country. Now, I am not sure when was the last time you picked up a newspaper, but I think it’s a little late for an ambush. 27 years late, to be precise. You see, a quarter of a century ago the African National Congress …
In 1993 civilized Britain experienced one of the most heinous crimes on record, also by the youngest offenders, to date. Little James Bulger was only two years old when he was abducted from New Strand Shopping center by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson, and Jon Venables. Forty-eight hours later children playing near a railway line discovered James’s body, 4 kilometers …