Columnists

What I hate most about being gay

Columnists 9 comments | 1717 views

Sandile Mabaso

How successful can a community really be when there are people who are not embraced because they are different, asks Sandile Mabaso.

The Columnists

Reconciliation requires open eyes, open hearts

Lindiwe Mazibuko 2 comments | 278 views

I would like to believe the vast majority of South Africans were angered by the racist tweets of Jessica Leandra dos Santos and Tshidi Thamana.

The F-word: Wanted – a friend to save South Africa

Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya 1 comments | 257 views

Spare a thought for South Africa. Unlike Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema in their times of trouble, it has no Friends of South Africa to call on.

Prove me wrong, Durbs. Nail them

Paddy Harper 60 views

There’s a massive opportunity right now for the politicians and bureaucrats who run the city of Durban to do the right thing.

Words can never change who I am

Ntuthuko Bhengu 40 views

Although such blatant racism cannot go unchallenged, given the tightrope we still walk daily in many parts of modern-day South Africa, on a personal level Jessica Leandra dos Santos’s insult means absolutely nothing to me.

A middle class act

Ferial Haffajee 1 comments | 596 views

As we all threw a toll tantrum in March, there were gasps of amazement that Cosatu had managed to get the middle class to march.

It’s time to break our silence about Aids

Bongani Kona 2 comments | 753 views

The first person I knew who died from “a long illness” was Cynthia (not her real name).

Ethiopia – a lesson in public brand sentiment

Dion Chang 57 views

Ethiopia is desperate to shrug off the embedded perception that it is the basket case of Africa.

Second Take: The cure for public servant ills

Thabo Shole-Mashao 1 comments | 100 views

After an inept encounter with a government department or any service provider, unconsciously or otherwise, one Pat Rogers would mutter in his distinctive bravado radio voice: “There are three words that make America work: You Are Fired.”

inside city press

ANC proposes a state publisher

Government wants to take charge of printing textbooks.
‘Papa lived and died in the ANC’

‘Papa never cried,” says Karabo Phakoe (30) as she wipes away the tears.
The best and worst of our water

South Africa’s best glass of tap water is to be found on Gauteng’s East Rand.
White Noise

Of all the work on show, it’s this depiction of the president that will set the most tongues wagging.
The return of protest pop

The new generation is finding out for itself how perilous political pop can be.
Soweto Rugby promises bright future

'We are not looking at this tournament as a black thing . . . we want to see it grow’
ANC woos white Afrikaans speakers

Ruling party to meet top leaders to get to the root of alienation issue.
An audience with a gentleman

Music industry’s smoothest dancer and best-dressed man, Ne-Yo, is heading to PE.

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