SELF CENSORSHIP: THE EDITOR WHO LEARNS TO KNEEL BEFORE POWER!
We have a bigger problem in South Africa than censorship. We have self-censorship. Censorship is when the state tells you that you cannot publish. Self-censorship is when you tell yourself that you cannot publish. It is worse, because there is no law to fight, no minister to sue. There is only your own fear, dressed […]
AGOA: South Africa Negotiated, Washington Moved the Goalposts. Now What?
There is a peculiar ritual in international economic relations. A powerful country makes a decision, a smaller country scrambles to assess the damage, and commentators begin debating whether the affected economy will survive. South Africa is now performing its part in this familiar drama following the Trump administration’s announcement that it intends to terminate the […]
Will the American Elections Find the American People?
“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.” Shakespeare’s […]
SHAKING THE TREE OF THE TRC TO FIND THE ROT OF CODESA: WITH REFERENCE TO SUNSET CLAUSE
Agreed in form, rejected in content.We welcome the Khampepe Commission in form. In content, we reject its confinement.The Commission, as proclaimed in May 2025 and extended to December 2026, asksone narrow question: Who blocked the investigation and prosecution of TRC cases?It is shaking the tree. But it refuses to look at the root.You cannot shake […]