WE HAVE started to rely quite slavishly on lawfare to settle important public disagreements. The latest lawfare is of course playing out at the SABC.
THERE’S a moral panic in some sections of corporate South Africa. This could potentially be put to good use in terms of moving us closer to more inclusive workplace ...
There is a difference between the artistic and moral engagement with a work of art and asking an artist to self-censor.
It is suspiciously easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place. Violence, in its various permutations, means the destruction of public property ...
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society.
There is something distractingly pathetic about evoking an impressive past in an attempt to have one's present-day failures be looked upon with kindness.
Did you know that a politician who lies isn’t the worst of the lot? No, really. Anyone who lies also knows the truth. And they want to hide the truth from you because ...
I am afraid, fellow South Africans, the sole conclusion that we can reach from the televised address from President Jacob Zuma on Friday night is that he takes each ...
I remember bowing in front of the altar and walking up three or four stairs, towards my left, where the Holy Communion was to be prayed over before Father was to ...
The Guptas are a useful but dangerous distraction for the ANC. The ANC can pretend that there is a single narrative about what is wrong with our politics and call ...
“Isn’t it childish to expect a political party to make you fall in love with it, Eusebius?!” asked Antony Altbeker of me, in his characteristically incisive and ...
If it were up to the ANC, you and I wouldn’t vote on the basis of the party’s local governance record later this year. If we did that, then the party would obviously ...
An old white lady stood patiently in the queue with her copy of Run, Racist, Run.
Bigots think we don’t see through their b*******. LOL.
Last week was President Jacob Zuma’s week of horror – as we all thought it would be.
This forthcoming week will present a couple of double-sided crises for President Zuma.
If you don’t speak up when it matters most, then you cannot get full credit for speaking up at all. This is something both the SACP and Cosatu need to realise.
Victims of oppression are not more or less capable of oppression than their oppressors.
Obviously, businessman Herman Mashaba has the right to be a libertarian who can pretend that his exceptional life story is proof that structural racism doesn’t exist. ...
I’m giving up on President Jacob Zuma ever understanding or respecting democratic culture.
How best should we respond to claims about the subjective experiences of people whose inner life we could never access?
It’s amazing how self-indulgent and perverse even us middle-class lot can be.
Part A: Oh my word, guys, isn’t South Africa, like, just the most awesome place to live in now that apartheid is over? So many bad things don’t happen any more. ...
Self-interest can blind us. Take, for example, four groups whose very different self-interests unite them: a black-led ANC government, many white South Africans, ...
If you take racism seriously as a political party, you should demonstrate that seriousness with a magisterial grasp of the structural, institutional and interpersonal ...