Columns
13.6.2018 08:30 am
Please don’t re-racialise the great Comrades race
Know-it-alls interpret the experience of others to suit their prejudices. Social media provide examples.
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) said that talking about LSD to people who haven’t used the drug is like talking to nuns about sex. Should we say something similar about people who haven’t run the Comrades Marathon?
Please don’t re-racialise the great Comrades race
Know-it-alls interpret the experience of others to suit their prejudices. Social media provide examples.
Columns
Shakespeare would’ve had a field day with SA politicians
Their lives off stage are ideal plots for romantic drama with a touch of eroticism thrown in. Their antics in parliament will provide brilliant entertainment.
Editorials
Get back on track by serving SA selflessly
The ‘old ANC’ was made up of people who fought for an ideal – freedom, democracy and equality – and they stood shoulder to shoulder, regardless of race.
Columns
Don’t dare get sick in South Africa
The health minister’s enthusiasm for National Health Insurance is matched, in the main, by horror stories in hospitals countrywide.
Editorials
Nukes or no nukes, we still have a planet to save
We need to realise that we are all neighbours on this fragile planet and the real war we should be fighting is to save our environment.
Columns
History is the best guide to the future
To look 200 years into the future is almost impossible. But looking back 200 years gives us a good indication of the kind of change we can expect.
Business
The down and dirty of executive share incentive schemes
Why should this elite class of taxpayer remain protected?
Columns
The parts of SA history we forget while shouting ‘racist’ at each other
A few important facts are either forgotten or ignored by increasingly rabid and racist black nationalists today.
Editorials
Civil servants should be grateful
Government workers will get raises of between 6% and 7% – more than fair in SA’s current economic climate.
Editorials
A win for SA rugby and the nation’s pride
The real winners on Saturday were South African rugby and South African national pride.
Editorials
MPs’ cancelled soccer ‘jol’ was indeed suspect
What good was it going to do sending parliamentarians – most of whom have no experience in the real world, never mind in teaching – to do the survey on our behalf?
Editorials
Dad’s fate shows the real toll of crime
Someone died, indirectly, because of appallingly high rate of violent crime and because a father carried a gun as he felt he needed it for protection.
Columns
Miserable bugger Motsoaledi is good medicine with bad side-effects
If only he could bring himself to be consultative and draw upon the wisdom that stands ready to help.
Columns
A piece of historic US land with an SA connection
Should a South African follow Goosen’s example at Shinnecock Hills, who can say the auguries were not there in the first place.
Columns
Orchids and Onions – Benz ‘crash’ rerun is excellent, hands-on advertising
Merc and Net#work BBDO’s documentary – all 5 minutes of it – captures all the elements perfectly and is wonderful entertainment.
Editorials
The race straw is easy for the EFF to grasp
It’s not quite so easy to present logical, visionary policies to change the country in which we live.
Columns
What could make Zuma leave the ANC?
The idea that the former president might conceivably lead a new party against the ANC seems preposterous. Or is it?
Editorials
Maimane gets it wrong with e-tolls
Surely the DA and Maimane could have come up with something better this week than blaming the latest fuel price increase on e-tolls.
Columns
Ethiopia’s authoritarian ruler ends 20-year war with wave of hand
It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that some people have been wondering aloud whether Ethiopia’s model is better for African countries.
Columns
Our mad, mad worlds
The children’s TV programme ‘In The Night Garden’ is built on sheer madness. But it is still a much saner, more balanced place than the real world.
Columns
Dear Apple, I’m sorry. It’s not me, it’s you
After years of loyalty, an Apple user attempts to get closure by explaining why he has decided to move on and never look back.
Columns
Let’s just call it all ‘Mandeland’ and get it over with
It’s way too easy to name everything after Mandela. It’s the path of least resistance, and therefore the most meaningless.
Editorials
We must have confidence in Cyril to repair economic confidence
New President Cyril Ramaphosa is changing the country and trying to root out corruption and bad governance. We have to hold tight until his efforts start bearing fruit.
Editorials
Cop killers should get no-parole life sentences
We have to let cop killers know they will not get away with it.
Columns
When activists display their bigotry
One peculiarity is the proponents of animal activism who vary from die-hard animal lovers who just want to lend a hand, to outright racists.
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