READERS may remember the controversy surrounding the banning and destruction of material published by Medialternatives. In particular the circumstances surrounding the elimination of my book review of A Secret Burden by none other than M&G editor Ferial Haffajee. The book itself was a collection...

THAT some commentators and journalists are rising to the defense of paramilitary politics in South Africa is not all that surprising. Far-right spokesperson Simon Shear, whom the Daily Vox’s Sipho Hlongwane insists is required reading on the subject of the EFF and the urgent topic of whether self...

IT IS NOT often that one gets to see blatant greenwashing non-science on SABC, 'the use of marketing to portray an organization's products, activities or policies as environmentally friendly when they are not'. The latest antics of the Dept of Environment's Edna Molewa is possibly a low-point in...

1) Fire No 1 and pay back the money 2) Cut back on five hour lunch sessions, R1bn wagyu steaks for No 2 3) Dump the Gupta Raj and the British East India Company kickbacks. 4) Reduce size of cabinet to pre-Zuma levels 5) Break up SOEs into smaller units, sell SAA. 6) Dump Eskom […]