If we can’t fix this - at a state-owned entity that is ostensibly doing okay and has actually partnered with a multinational to provide a key service, as all the ...
As President Cyril Ramaphosa prepares to deliver his January 8 statement, he might find that a stiff tot wouldn’t go amiss as he prepares us for the year.
If we can’t get a discount on our taxes, not even a year off, how about a year of no load shedding, Mr President?
The City of Johannesburg has a new mayor this week. His name is Geoff Makhubo. He’s a member of the ANC. And he’s corrupt. We know this because the EFF told us so. ...
Mzansi - in the words of the millennials - “lost its sh*t” over the arrival of a British couple and their kid.
We have been treated to a rare experience this week; the ability to mourn in unity, uncontested and unchallenged.
Johnny Clegg, one of our most globally recognisable cultural icons is dead, but his music will live on, writes Kevin Ritchie
This week was merely the car crash of Busisiwe Mkhwebane's remarkably bad tenure, but it?s one that could go on continuous slow-motion loop as other judgments loom. ...
People are speeding all the time and the only way to stop them - and save them and us - is to have zero tolerance.
People applying for US visas will soon have to provide their social media details as part of the vetting process, but what about their own president?
If there was ever a metaphor for the state we are in, we need look no further that a picture of a rather forlorn president looking out of a Metrorail train.
Things that happen in the third world don?t have as much resonance as things that happen in the first world - until it?s too late to wish them away.
In South Africa nobody takes responsibility, nobody gets consistently outraged and there are no consequences for anti-social or criminal behaviour.
Given Jacob Zuma's legal woes, perhaps he should have held out for a collaboration with Fokofpolisiekar, writes Kevin Ritchie.
Next year is going to be dominated by the general elections - and it?s going to get weird, not that it hasn?t been strange already.
For a very brief moment I actually agreed with the self-styled “commander-in-chief” when he promised to do an H&M on Momentum
Joost van der Westhuizen's will said everything goes to the J9 Trust, of which the couple’s two children are the only beneficiaries
Others might argue that it’s because World War I was a white man’s war
Malusi Gigaba is, by his own hand, nothing more than a wanker using state resources for his own gratification
Rape accused pastor Timothy Omotoso’s counsel Peter Daubermann went for complainant Cheryl Zondi like an attack dog
Our history is littered with bad apologies. There’s Hansie Cronje’s tearful effort after being bust for cricket match-fixing, writes Kevin Ritchie
When someone gets run over and killed, smacked out of their boots at 120km/h, there will be hell to pay
24 years into our democracy, South Africa doesn’t much look like the country Madiba led
Social media has allowed all of us to become columnists, sharing our opinions with whoever cares to friend or follow
No one in the apartheid regime knew of the Civil Co-operation Bureau or deaths in detention. Actually, we all knew. We just didn’t pay any heed to it.