LET SENSE PREVAIL: LOBBYING AND CORRUPTION ARE NOT THE SAME
Do not even try to suggest synonymity. On the matter now threatened between ActionSA’s Michael Beaumont and Tony Leon’s private company Resolve Communications, lobbying has suddenly been sprung up to be mistakenly interchangeable by the untutored to mean the same thing as corruption. The two are expediently now cast as neck to neck in the […]
IT TAKES THE MAD TO BELIEVE THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Dystopia is not around the corner. It is with us. To refuse to see evil is to invest in blindness.To unhear evil is to muffle the ear of conscience.To ignore the wailing of those crushed by the filthy rich. Those who profit from blindness will pay to keep it opulent. So in these times:To see […]
BREAK BREAD IN REMEMBRANCE OF JUNE 16, 1976
Presidents deal with the state of the nationThe Class of ‘76 deals with the mind of a nation Rather than a gala dinnerNot in keeping with memoryOf brave hearts put downBy pull of a cruel triggerGather to break breadIn reverence of the deep meaning of this epochal moment to sink in. This is not mere […]
POETIC APPEAL TO REFRAIN FROM REDUCING JUNE 16, 1976 TO A CURTAIN RAISER FOR THE ACTS OF UNTHINKING AND UNCARING HEARTS
If this day holds no meaning to you,Go on and celebrate and still be free. Pardon my absence in your celebrations.The victories you are celebratingHave proved to be my defeats.Ask not thenThe honour of my presence,It will be unforgivable vanity to do so. This is no negotiationFor June 16, 1976 to be respected.The appeals are […]
WHAT ON EARTH QUALIFIES HELEN ZILLE AS AN ‘ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST’?
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South African history records Saths Cooper as one of the SASO Nine — student leaders arrested in 1974 for their ‘anti-apartheid’ activities. Cooper was not “so-called.” He was, and remains, a central figure in the Black Consciousness Movement and a true liberation activist. Yet, in stark contrast, Helen Zille is also labeled an “anti-apartheid activist” […]
DONALD TRUMP’S DEPICTION OF OBAMAS AS APES SHOULD NOT SURPRISE
No wonder the centre of gravity of the revolving door in which elected American presidents, including Barack Obama, to come in and out with each allocated their share of momentous contributions to endless wars to sustain – and to effect regime change – is called the White House. To do as America says and not […]
WE DARE NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO TAKE AWAY OUR AMUSEMENT
They, our people, us collectively, we Blacks, have lost purpose for our lives, and those that still have purpose for their lives, starved to the periphery of insignificance. A friend, who will remain anonymous but is a journalist of note, made me laugh last night (Friday January 30, 2026). Says my journalist bosom friend: “Ngwenya […]
PRE AND POST 1994 CAPE TOWN MINSTREL CARNIVAL HAS NEVER FAILED TO COLOUR STREETS IN CELEBRATION
Cape Town Minstrel Carnival or Kaapse Klopse derives from the 19th century when slaves in the Western Cape were given a day off on January 2nd. The tradition started as a form of protest to oppressive Dutch colonisation, allowing slaves to express their joy and culture. There is no present-day clarity on the key message […]
SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE AZANIAN LIONESS, MANI MOLEFE – RIP
Mani Molefe will be laid to rest in Soweto on Wednesday October 22. Mani could easily have resigned herself to live in the shadow of her sister Mmagauta Molefe. Instead, she cast her own shade. She took to community development enrolling for a six-month Ubuntu Social Development Institute (USDI) Course at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre (WFC) […]
THE SIGHT OF THE POOR SCOUTING FOR FUNERALS SO THEY MAY EAT IS AN INDICTIMENT OF SOCIETY
The day was hardly done, October 12, 2025 to be exact. It was the burial day of the late former arts and culture, and also police minister and SA ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa. All the honours, due to him that the state could muster, would have been silly to deny on the strength of […]
“STOP ABUSING PEOPLE WHO HAVE ENTRUSTED THEIR FAITH IN YOU”, RELIGIOUS LEADERS WARNED
October 2, 2025 will rank as a great milestone for the community members of faith in the march to bring to a stop the perpetuation of harmful practices of some religious leaders in their congregations. The milestone has been spurred by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights (CRL). The […]
BRING BACK THE BLACK “LOST SHEEP” BACK TO ITS BLACK SHEPHERDS
I think it is about time we asked white people to bring back to us, black people. I’m talking about the black people White society, globally, has used and no longer has use of. Active observation has shown that there’s plenty of such. They’ve gone beyond expiry date. The Black folks could, I bet, find […]