October 13 2016 I cannot in any way be characterized as a Luddite, one of those people who suffer from a morbid fear of technological...
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Follow Tanga and Copenhagen; get on your bike and ride
September 29 2016 – Most of our cities on the African continent are bursting at the seams with motor-vehicle traffic. It is divine bliss when...
It’s open season on Blacks in the US, and transparency is said to be subjective
September 22 2016 – Am I alone in having this feeling, that we are witnessing unprecedented police shootings of African Americans in the United States?...
What we need is a national debate: Do we want dictatorship or not?
September 1 2016 We now find respite to pause on the verge of a plunge, and ponder just what might have been. Or, imagine just...
ANC losing political ground in SA, like most of us all over Africa
August 4 2016 South Africans went to the ballot box this past week to elect local councilors in what was described as a hotly contested...
Story of those who whupped odds with dogged will to win
July 10 2016 Don’t you worry, sir, I will of course write about Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, who left us this past week. He is...
Israel’s dubious friendship can help in only one area, but who wants that?
July 7 2016 This past week has witnessed a resurgence of Israel’s diplomatic activity within the Eastern African region with the high-profile visit of the...
Drunk MPs, citizens, a question of governance deficit
May 26 2016 – Another example of my romance with T-shirts with catchy words in my youth came from Paris, and it went (my translation):...
Come and impeach our rulers, leave poor Dilma alone!
May 12 2016 – The reader may still remember the nickname “La Pasionaria” I wrote about a few years ago in this space. Well, she...
Zuma has beaten his foes, but ANC is sicker for it
April 7 2016 It was a foregone conclusion; it was not going to succeed, and it sure as hell failed. The move by a section...