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...

IN THE ongoing war of ideas in which Marxist-Leninism and its offshoots, continue to do battle with advocates of free and open societies such as Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson, and Nelson Mandela, what has Julius Malema have to offer? In a brazen "State of the Nation" address, uncharacteris...

THAT the far left Economic Freedom Fighter's leader Julius Malema has absolutely no clue on how the economy works is best illustrated by his recent comments that 'nationalised banks would run themselves, and without focusing on maximising profits, would keep their interest rates low so that all S...

Something needs to be said about the Lonmin Massacre. It is not simply because what we are witnessing recalls so many massacres under the apartheid regime, or that what we are seeing is occurring now under an ANC government. No, what needs to be said is the way foreign markets are dominating the...

Imitating Eugene Terreblanche?