Cute animal bubbles and happy things
Sometimes the antidotes to all the tragedy and darkness we see in social media in response to world events are cute animal bubbles and other happy things. At le...
Tag: Current Affairs
"I wear a Magen David because I am not too small to fight"
The last few weeks have been challenging times for Jews worldwide, particularly here in South Africa where we have been spared the growing anti-Semitism that ha...
Israel’s operation in Gaza is not causing deep-seated prejudices, it is revealing them
From “Anti-Israel Protests Make the Case for Israel“: Israel’s operation in Gaza is not causing deep-seated prejudices, it is revealing them. And be...
Could the old Apartheid government have saved us from Zuma's ANC?
Someone I was chatting to after the 2014 elections, last week, made an interesting comment. He said that if the old Apartheid-era National Party had educated al...
The ANC Abuses Its Power To Protect Its Control
I just read an article in Mail & Guardian titled ANC at pains to silence booing and noticed this stark reminder that the ANC sees itself as synonymous with ...
Why I hope the DA has a chance to govern
The Democratic Alliance published its follow-up to the original Ayisafani ad which the SABC banned. Even taking into account that this is an ad and portrays the...
A parable about hubris and an ongoing digital tragedy
This post was originally published on Medium It feels like a lifetime since the Pushers left and the Communicators stepped up. Before then, the Pushers shaped t...
Writing about the ANC's perspective on power
More equal than others The ANC’s response to the Public Protector’s report on the Nkandla controversy highlights its twisted perspective on its posi...