Category: Politics

The Disgrace of SA’s Post-Colonial ‘Mimic Men’

IN 1967, a book by Caribbean writer VS Naipaul examined how newly-created elites in newly-independent countries that had laboured under

IQBAL Survé is standing neck-deep in a hole which he dug for himself – and slowly, but surely, it is

STEVE Hansen, the coach of probably the finest All Blacks team ever, is an ass. A big one. But he

BETWEEN the 17th and 19th centuries, white – mainly Dutch-speaking – colonialists did not consider legal niceties when they coveted

DIANNE Kohler Barnard has been in trouble before. Five years ago, she was suspended for a working week – by

When governments in free countries lose the capacity to govern effectively, they look for scapegoats – and, invariably, one of

On Monday, 1 August at 6.15pm, I called up the Google Website on my five-year-old Acer laptop, typed in the

Far too often we let politicians get away with spouting the type of waste product that emerges from a bull’s