Author: Dougie Oakes

The City of Cape Town’s forces of law and order – described as ‘goons’ by some people – have done

In the days before cellphones … in the days when security police listened in to telephone conversations of journalists, there

One of the biggest scandals of Covid-19 would be to use the pandemic as an excuse to round up poor

The controversy over cabbage is nothing new to South Africans. Listen, we fight over our greens. Here’s another story –

On 13 August 1921, the ‘Springboks’ and the All Blacks played each other for the first time in a rugby

BY DOUGIE OAKES TWO years before Simon’s Town was declared a white group area and a process set in motion

MEC Garth Strachan, Head of Department, Brendon Roberts, The Board of Directors of the Cape Music Industry Commission Honoured guests,

Mark Boucher’s acknowledgment that he was one of several racist pricks in the Proteas’ side of the 1990s has been

ALLAN BOESAK President, distinguished platform guests, ladies and gentlemen! We have arrived at a historic moment. We have brought together

I’D BEEN thinking about how to say goodbye for days – and I had gone through periods of bristling anger