DA playing a Day Zero sum game with Zille-De Lille

Dougie Oakes|Published

The mess the DA is trying to extricate itself from in Cape Town has highlighted a key point: it is not half as good as it claims to be.

Cricketing great 'Dik' Abed denied the biggest stage

Dougie Oakes|Published

It could be argued that Dik Abed, who died in the Netherlands on Friday, was one of the biggest casualties of the “D’Oliveira Affair” in 1968.

Patricia de Lille yesterday's person – the party is over

Dougie Oakes|Published

The goings-on in the City of Cape Town can be summed up in a wonderfully expressive Afrikaans saying: “Bo bont, onder stront. ”

After many broken promises, has fight for non-racial sport truly been won?

Dougie Oakes|Published

The fact is so much that should have been done has not been done. So many promises have been made and glibly broken.

ANC discontent palpable as Zuma sounds off against veterans

Dougie Oakes|Published

Only he will know what possessed him to attack the ANC veterans and stalwarts.

A fight for rights with cemented links

Dougie Oakes|Published

Philip Kgosana, who died last week, was propelled into the limelight at the age of 23 when he led a march of 30 000 in 1960, writes Dougie Oakes

Heart of gold that touched lives

Dougie Oakes|Published

As a lawyer, Essa Moosa shone like a beacon through some of the bleakest times in the history of the fight against apartheid.

Castle's 350th anniversary could be real history lesson

Dougie Oakes|Published

OUR conversation switches suddenly from the 350th anniversary commemoration of the Castle of Good Hope to a tiny island off the coast of the west African state of ...

The 'Bread Man' will be sorely missed

Dougie Oakes|Published

IN RETREAT, ...

Call to be brave transformation force

Dougie Oakes|Published

“UNLESS you take control of your destiny, you will have no destiny. ” ...

Songs of praise for a worthy heroine

Dougie Oakes|Published

IT WAS often said of Nelson Mandela that few of the iconic figures of the 20th century, including even the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King ...

Proudly
South African

Dougie Oakes|Published

SOUTH AFRICANS will be enormously proud of Team South Africa’s medals haul at the Rio Olympics, which ended yesterday.

Revelling in history, ferocity of non-racial rugby

Dougie Oakes|Published

I ALWAYS choose my words carefully – sometimes too carefully, I guess. So when, in a Cape Times 140th anniversary article on rugby on Wednesday, I described SA Cup ...

Ignorance driving rugby quotas' opposition

Dougie Oakes|Published

THOSE who are distributing social media petitions calling for a stop to “quotas in rugby” are basing their campaigns on the premise that black people have never ...

End gangsterism rule urgently

Dougie Oakes|Published

On Monday, we carried a front-page photograph of panic-stricken chaos, in which dozens of mainly young people are seen scrambling to avoid bullets during a shoot-out ...

Biko and boykie from District

Dougie Oakes|Published

DORKAY House, Johannesburg: On a day in the mid-1970s, two musicians from Cape Town – Mervyn Africa and Russell Herman – are locked in deep conversation with Steve ...

Highs and lows of District Six

Dougie Oakes|Published

EVERYONE with a connection to District Six has a District Six story to tell.

A simple act helps heal wounds

Dougie Oakes|Published

THIS is a story about memory, about coming to terms with the past, about righting wrongs – and, most of all, about how the simple act of acknowledgement can heal ...

Remove myth of organised terrorism

Dougie Oakes|Published

IF YOU want to understand what’s really going on in the Middle East, start by removing the myth of organised terrorism.

Protect girls from clutches of ukuthwala

Dougie Oakes|Published

As the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children draws to a close, The Salvation Army has called for an end to the cultural practice of ukuthwala ...

Debating role of science in SA

Dougie Oakes|Published

I have convened, starting today and continuing tomorrow in Pretoria, the first “Science Forum South Africa”.

EE policy must make practical sense

Dougie Oakes|Published

IN A PAMPHLET entitled “What employers and workers need to know about employment equity”, the Department of Labour says: “The purpose of the Act is to remove unfair ...

Opinion: Semenya action exposes hypocrisy

Dougie Oakes|Published

OFFICIALS of the International Association of Athletics Federations ought to be hanging their heads in shame following the disclosure of one of the biggest ever ...

Opinion: Zuma must uphold the Constitution

Dougie Oakes|Published

What is it that Jacob Zuma cannot or refuses to understand about our Constitution?

Opinion: Start of a revolution

Dougie Oakes|Published

ON OCTOBER 6, UCT responded to a renewed demand to stop the practice of using outsourced labour with a rebuff that reeked of smugness – and of a “take it or leave ...