EYE SAY HERE IS THE PRICE RAMAPHOSA WILL PAY FOR APPEASEMENT
When he eventually admits defeat – if he isn’t kicked out first as president of South Africa and the ANC
Continue readingTHE D’OLIVEIRA AFFAIR REVISITED
TEN years ago this week, Basil D’Oliveira, one of the greatest cricketers never to play for his country, died, giving
Continue readingABRAHAM ESAU – THE MARTYR OF CALVINIA
Like many other colonialist countries in the world, black heroism in national and global conflict, especially in Southern Africa, was
Continue readingMAKING HISTORY AT READER’S DIGEST
Mention ‘Reader’s Digest’ to any well-read, politically savvy member of the older generation and the chances are you’ll hear comments
Continue readingOWEN WILLIAMS – AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIGHT AGAINST APARTHEID CRICKET
To Owen Williams, apartheid meant more than the humiliation of being ushered in the back of a bus … a
Continue readingTHE SAD STORY OF JOB MASEKO
This is a portrait of a South African WW2 soldier, His name was Job Maseko and like millions of other
Continue readingEYE SAY – STILL MUCH MUST BE DONE TO SAVE SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET
THIRTY years ago, this week, an all-white South African cricket team was given a free pass out of apartheid
Continue readingEYE SAY – RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IS NEEDED
The ANC that will celebrate the 110th anniversary of its founding on 8 January 2022 will be a completely different
Continue readingWE HAVE PLENTY OF MIMIC MEN – AND WOMEN – IN SOUTH AFRICA
IN 1967, a book by Caribbean writer VS Naipaul examined how newly-created elites in newly-independent countries that had laboured under
Continue readingDEAR JOHN
I’m paying H a lot of money for leaked copies of her emails to John – so mense, julle moerit
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