Don't call me bad - I'm a black man
AN alleged racist plot against Richard Mdluli is not only laughable, it also means that we too might need some remedial education on growing a racial conscience overnight and use it as a cover for crimes committed. 0 Comments
Crisis in SAPS triggers alarm
SOUTH African citizens who listened to acting Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's pronouncements on corruption within the ranks of the police this week have every reason to be very worried. 0 Comments
Musicians must speak out against rot
SEVERAL socio-political disorders that may flush the country down a cesspit as a failed state have attracted the spotlight of news reports, analysis and commentary. 0 Comments
We should defend our democracy
I AM not sure who said that if democracy declines, it will make way for totalitarianism. 0 Comments
The Khoza effect
THE markets tipped this week following the pot-stirring by Reuel Khoza, the chairman of Nedbank. 0 CommentsSABC board is failing the public
FOR a collective charged with steering an ailing public broadcaster out of stormy seas, the current SABC board appears to be faring no better than a headless chicken. 0 CommentsExtra vigilance needed to protect readers from scamsters
Newspapers have often been accused of not being objective. Yet, objectivity was never universally accepted as a major guiding principle for journalists. 0 Comments
United buffoonery
The Disney forces at Luthuli House tried to confront their ugly afflictions this week with a howler of a press briefing, proving again that paranoia runs deep in the place. 0 CommentsResidents of Lucecweni ignored
I LIVE in Lucecweni, Ward 3, in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape. This ward is neglected and looks like a farm for donkeys. Maybe even those animals are better off than the residents of this ward, who are forced to compete with pigs for water. 0 Comments
e-Toll sellout
GAUTENG Premier Nomvula Mokonyane is a sellout. She first spoke out against the toll roads and now she has instructed all departments and municipalities to register or else. 0 Comments
Big betrayal
THE South African Communist Party (SACP) will hold its elective conference this year. 0 CommentsWe must act to put an end to rape scourge
THE recent media reports about the incidents of rape in our society are worrying and are a reflection of a deep-seated problem in our communities and households. 0 CommentsGedleyihlekisa will get you!
THE ANC has finally defeated the ANC Youth League. We told you Jacob Zuma was a veteran when it comes to factional wars. 0 CommentsZuma's legacy? A litany of rotten, inexcusable actions
AT the ANC Top Six press conference three weeks ago, one journalist asked: "What will be your legacy Mr President"? 0 Comments
ANCYL fails youth
IT'S a sad day for some of us as ANC Youth League members that we find ourselves in the current situation. 0 CommentsRestore historical discipline!
THE overwhelming majority in SA entrusted our national liberation movement with the task of spearheading socio-economic transformation in our land. 0 Comments
Ignore the evildoers - whack the fly!
COMPARED to the shenanigans of other comrades in the ANC, Juju's "wickedness" (if it can be called wickedness at all) is a tad too harmless to warrant expulsion. 3 Comments
Human rights abused
THE ANC's desperation and paranoia is beginning to show under the leadership of Jacob Zuma who erroneously believes that propaganda and big (unfulfilled) promises will sustain his leadership and/or that of the ANC in the country. 0 CommentsSure, do crime - there's no space for you in jail
I'm shocked to hear that the Department of Correctional Services will, at the instruction of clueless President Jacob Zuma, release some 35000 prisoners because prisons are overcrowded. 0 CommentsLeftist stance of Zuma's administration makes 2nd term vital for working class
HEALTH Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's announcement that Tshwane's poorest residents stand to be the first beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance (NHI) is inspiring and confirms the leftist approach of the current Zuma administration. 0 CommentsNumsa bad eggs back-stab SACP
IT's become a permanent feature for some in the National Union of Metalworkers of SA to launch savage attacks against Blade Nzimande, the general secretary of the SACP. 0 CommentsDon't lampoon truth tellers
Only self appointed vanguards like ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe, government communications head Jimmy Manyi et al could continue to berate anyone who takes a critical stance on the ruling party's glaring failure to display sustained leadership. 0 CommentsWe'll refuse e-tolling with our wallets
FINANCE Minister Pravin Gordhan would have delivered the most heartening budget speech had it not been messed up by the so- called e-tolling system in Gauteng. 0 CommentsCommunists called upon to take leadership of the ANC to defeat capitalism
SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande's call at the SACP Gauteng elective conference that the SACP must lead the revolution, and not follow it, is a vital principle. 0 CommentsPromises to pay up are empty
I READ your heartbreaking story "Please pay us", Sunday World, March 18, about a small company, CKB Washroom, that faces extinction because of non-payment by the health department. 0 Comments
A house so divided
JULIUS Malema, when addressing his supporters, said the gloves are off. And Mathew Phosa said Mangaung will make Polokwane look like a picnic. 0 CommentsEntrepreneurship development programme offers hope
BOTH small and big businesses have a role to play in job creation and economic development, but 90% of small businesses fail. 0 CommentsEskom begs aid then splurges
NOT so long ago the electricity utility Eskom made headlines when they pleaded poverty and needed a financial bail- out from the state. 0 CommentsYou are cordially invited to join us
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