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Editorials
27.5.2020 08:00 am
SA sports bodies have to get creative
This is needed as local sporting bodies figure out how to operate within lockdown regulations.
Sport, like so many other aspects of life, will never be the same again. Since the outbreak of Covid-19, various sporting codes and their organisations have been wracking their brains to come up with new ideas of how to continue plying their trade under new conditions.
Editorials
Our future is in our own hands
With Ramaphosa’s warning that, according to models that have been developed, the pandemic is going to get much worse before it gets better, we are going to need everyone to do their bit.
Columns
Lockdown Diaries: Are the Boks men or mousses?
Take prop Ollie le Roux, a man not to be trifled with. Ollie’s dessert is chocolate mousse, which might account for his 126kg fighting weight.
Editorials
Reserve Bank ‘running out of options’ is a huge concern
Easing the lockdown over the next few months is only expected to help the economy in the short term.
Columns
Ramaphosa’s booze vs tobacco balancing act makes no sense
The president better pray that he is not left with two things he is trying to avoid: a massively high body count and a completely wrecked economy.
Columns
Making an ass of the booze ban
Sixteen hours of YouTube videos later, I considered myself somewhat of an amateur expert and decided to source the material needed to build a small still.
Columns
NDZ, why stop at banning cigarettes? Chairs kill people too
Enough of the naysaying. This week, I’m feeling helpful. Let’s ban it all.
Editorials
Back to school is tricky decision
Teachers, administrators and those involved in transporting children to and from school are also exposed.
Editorials
Don’t ignore the science gurus, even if you don’t like what they tell you
Professor Glenda Gray, chair of the Medical Research Council and an internationally recognised scientist, was the first to raise the alarm about advice being disregarded.
Columns
Lockdown Diaries: Death is a fact of life we seem to have forgotten
Putting the future of South Africa in jeopardy this way defies logic, but is perhaps understandable given that most politicians are at a vulnerable age.
Editorials
Cele dodges the tobacco, booze ban hot potato
It is clear the lockdown regulations have made criminals of otherwise law-abiding South African citizens, but have made the tobacco and booze mafia immeasurably wealthier.
Editorials
Shopping without malls could rejuvenate economic world
Perhaps, in the way nature has healed because of the absence of humans during lockdown, so too, the economic world might return to the old ways … of small shops and personal service.
Columns
Lockdown Diaries: Please spare a thought for taxi industry
I’m asking Mr Ramaphosa on their behalf: please help. They need some form of relief to have hope for tomorrow.
Columns
The ANC wants to reshape SA … into what?
By bringing the economy to its knees, the virus gives SA a chance ‘to start all over’ – but the lay of the land looks to be mostly sloping towards disaster.
Columns
Orchids and Onions – Aero’s light-as-air ad is still a winner
New Balance South Africa, you get a ‘The Answer’s No! Now What’s the Question?’ customer-service Onion for shooting yourselves in the foot.
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