EYE SAY – CHANGE THE CITY THAT’S BO BONT AND ONNER STRONT
It’s time to lay to rest a myth planted by the DA in the Western Cape more than a decade
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Dougie heads up Dougie Oakes Communications, a consultancy specialising in all facets of corporate communication, including strategy and public relations
EYE SAY – DON’T TELL US HOW TO FEEL ABOUT OUR PAST
It never ceases to amaze me how so many people who could vote when I was not allowed to, are
Continue readingEYE SAY – IT’S TIME TO STAND UP FOR THE HOMELESS
The City of Cape Town’s forces of law and order – described as ‘goons’ by some people – have done
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In the days before cellphones … in the days when security police listened in to telephone conversations of journalists, there
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One of the biggest scandals of Covid-19 would be to use the pandemic as an excuse to round up poor
Continue readingAS ‘IE GROENTE EERS BEGIN WIKKEL
The controversy over cabbage is nothing new to South Africans. Listen, we fight over our greens. Here’s another story –
Continue readingHERE’S THE TRUE STORY OF THE RUGBY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WHITE SA AND NEW ZEALAND
On 13 August 1921, the ‘Springboks’ and the All Blacks played each other for the first time in a rugby
Continue readingWHEN HORROR VISITED LUYOLO IN SIMON’S TOWN
BY DOUGIE OAKES TWO years before Simon’s Town was declared a white group area and a process set in motion
Continue readingAN ATTEMPT TO OFFER SOMETHING TO OUR MUSICIANS
MEC Garth Strachan, Head of Department, Brendon Roberts, The Board of Directors of the Cape Music Industry Commission Honoured guests,
Continue readingIT’S TIME FOR CHANGE AT THE TOP OF CRICKET
Mark Boucher’s acknowledgment that he was one of several racist pricks in the Proteas’ side of the 1990s has been
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