The F word: Malunga merely expressed his views
South Africa is obsessed with agreeing. Perhaps it is an outcome of a political resolve based on sufficient consensus.
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The F-word: Rulers who don’t play by their rules
If ever we were in doubt, we should not be any more. The art of doublespeak has become official state policy.
The F-word: Souls for sale in our protest nation
A troubling thought assailed me at the beginning of this week.
The F-word: Let’s put Kunene obsession to bed
A story is told about how Robert May, then Britain’s topmost scientist, chief scientific adviser to the British government and president of the Royal Society, responded to an obscure creationist asking for a debate with him.
The F-word: SA was not freed by a Lone Ranger
Ask the average South African why the names Monty Motloung or George “Lucky” Mahlangu should matter to them, and you are likely to be met with blank stares.
The F-word: Sindane knew what it was to be white
And so the young man with the most ironic of names died on April Fool’s Day. What we know of Happy Sindane’s life was anything but joyful.
The F-word: Trite sentiments ring hollow
As fate would have it, the public outcry over the deaths of 13 South African soldiers who died in the Central African Republic has coincided with a week in which much of the world commemorates the most famous dying for a cause ever recorded.
The F-word: State acts in the apartheid spirit
After returning from about three decades of exile, celebrated jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela released the song Khawuleza, the lyrics of which included: “Fihlani amagogogo otshwala, nanka amaphoyisa ayongen’ endlini…”
The F-word: The voted-for lord it over the voters
The passing of the bill to legalise e-tolling and the recent drama of revolving mayors in the Tlokwe Local Municipality, North West, have turned voters into spectators as decisions affecting their everyday lives are made.
Mashaba fights council controls
After many years of bemoaning what he alleges to be collusion between bargaining councils, big business and big trade unions to exclude small business and the unemployed, businessperson and chair of the Free Market Foundation, Herman Mashaba.
The F-word: If only men could start loving women
Sometime in the early 90s, I met a guy who would be my friend.
The F-word: Don’t give the pope power that’s not his
Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin once famously asked: “How many divisions does the pope have?”
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