“Affirmative Looting” at Brookside Mall
The journalists are too afraid to go closer to the mall in Pietermaritzburg. Almost no police are in sight outside the mall, but it appears that some people are being arrested. Male and female looters are walking away with trolleys piled high with stolen goods. The...
Not with a Bang but with a whimper!
After all the bluster and posturing from Zuma supporters, including his son Edward and Carl Niehaus, the now suspended ANC member and spokesperson for the MKMVA and the dancing on the stage and rabble rousing songs in front of the stage at Nkandla, the supporters are...
Do South Africans have a Death Wish?
Corona Infections; particularly in Gauteng are rising fast! Large numbers of our country's citizens seem to be so fed -up with the pandemic and the inconvenient effects it has on our lifestyles that they are desperately grasping at straws to get out of the situation...
Xoli Mngambe and Malema
Great Interview! but poor arguments from Malema, Malema is a charismatic leader - of the EFF but his stances on many issues are rife with fallacious arguments. One thing that is refreshing to hear from Malema is the way he stands by his arguments. He is not afraid to...
Conspiracy Theories about Covid 19.
Covid 19 is a fertile breeding ground for people to believe in all kinds of frankly ludicrous theories surrounding the disease. Here are some of these: Covid 19 does not exist. The pandemic is a fiction supported by people who go around with cameras taking pictures or...
Covid 19 Third Wave in South Africa.
(This message is being offered by an observer, a business owner and a citizen of South Africa) Why is our government; at all levels, finding it so difficult to understand how to deal with Corona virus; in particular the third wave that is now upon us? I am not a...
Land Restitution – a serious moral question or a huge joke?
The first question to ask is who came up with the notion that land should be given back free of charge to its original inhabitants? That question then leads to myriad other questions: How far back do you go? Are you going to say that the descendants of a Strandloper...
MZANSI IS BURNING!
Trucks are going up in flames, public officials are stealing, township dwellers are necklacing people, Covid 19 infections are shooting up again; and Patricia De Lille is just talking. South Africa is bleeding money. SOEs are being propped up at enormous cost, and the...
The Banana Republic Beckons
It was shocking to hear from former TRC commissioner, Yasmin Sooka yesterday, that since the TRC wrapped-up its investigation into the rights and wrongs perpetrated by citizens in power in the Apartheid era that, no successful prosecutions have been concluded since...
