Columns
6.3.2019 09:35 am
Courts can’t help you when the power goes off
Improvement is difficult with a R170 billion infrastructure backlog, bequeathed by the previous administration, which neglected infrastructure.
Enduring a second power outage within 24 hours, the good folk in Ward 90 were commendably tolerant on Monday.
Courts can’t help you when the power goes off
Improvement is difficult with a R170 billion infrastructure backlog, bequeathed by the previous administration, which neglected infrastructure.
Columns
Good theatre is a hard act to follow
Up north, you have a choice of three of four show houses churning out both classic and modern pieces.
Opinion
Why I won’t be donating to the guy who picked up EFF litter
Eckhard Binding has been hailed as an example, and even a hero, in SA and around the world. It may be a bit of a stretch.
Columns
Ramaphosa’s silence on Robert McBride shows weakness
A true democrat, a true leader, would stand up to the faction in his party that wants McBride gone.
Columns
Building and breaking are no game of Monopoly
Maybe if we were forced to grasp the enormity of the task as children, we’d have the sense to avoid it altogether.
Editorials
The country’s going broke at a rapid rate
SA will go broke if it does not cut civil service salaries, social grant payments, government debt and other expenses, according to professor Jannie Rossouw.
Columns
Careful with the fuse of mob violence
Thoriso Themane was brutally beaten to death in Polokwane by a mob of mainly teenage boys, and it’s symptomatic of our country.
Columns
Just where does the time go?
I can give you a million excuses, but none of these account for the lost hours and days.
Editorials
Basking in Federer’s glory
The 37-year-old Swiss legend’s amazing run started in 2001 in Milan.
Business
What is the real agenda of the revised BEE codes?
Do the black economic empowerment codes envisage the transformation of the economy – or do they have another purpose in mind?
Columns
The ANC grasshoppers are stripping SA
The ANC and its partners in asset destruction are hijacking a century of accumulated sovereign wealth and hocking it for dosh to splurge on Blue Label and sushi.
Columns
Duanne Olivier did the right thing
The working life of a professional sportsman is short and given that it’s your livelihood, it’s logical to try and gain as much financial security as possible.
Columns
Orchids and Onions – You go, Mecer, just ignore the haters
Local is not only ‘lekker’, it’s very much needed. But that doesn’t help Vodacom, who gets an Onion for its ‘pay to rollover’ up-yours to customers.
Columns
Mboweni can take a leaf from this household’s book
We wage war against school fees, food prices, fuel bills, the 15% VAT rate, an increased interest rate, hidden taxes…
Columns
Spare the rod, spoil the child
During our time, punishment at school and at home for misbehaviour was normal – something which created a disciplined generation.
Columns
Parents must help to make our schools safe again
As parents, we must be held accountable for our children’s behaviour because who they are at school is a reflection of our control as caregivers.
Columns
Come on, all of Goodwood knows who won the R232m PowerBall now
The most successful gambler in SA history has asked to remain anonymous. Good luck with that, my broe.
Columns
ANC ‘resurrection’ is fake news
Alph Lukau, who claimed to have resurrected a dead man on Sunday, is not the only fake prophet in South Africa.
Columns
Nesting on the barest of means
There’s nothing more therapeutic than a session in the bush. Away from pilfering MPs, bloated BEEs and choking cricketers.
Columns
Cyril, it’s time to steal ideas from the opposition
Whether it is the DA suggesting the privatisation of SAA or Eskom should not matter. The ruling party must copy those sections of the DA manifesto to save SA money and direct it to where it’s needed: services to the poor.
Editorials
RAF: overhaul the whole system
The reason the money pit of the Road Accident Fund exists at all is because so many South Africans are behind the wheel without insurance.
Editorials
ANC’s view on land reform sobering
Few who support extreme land reform – for that is what this will be – look further than change of ownership.
Columns
Freedom counts for little when you’re drowning in garbage
What SA needs is a national service outside the SA National Defence Force but run on the same disciplinarian lines.
Columns
The old age bus is coming to pick me up
I have reached the stage where much of what I say about tech has young people rolling on the floor with laughter.
Columns
Jaundiced Eye – Something stinks in SA and it’s not a French drain
It’s true that, as a nation, we have never much endeared ourselves to our fellow Africans.
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