BY VUKAYIBAMBE
The last 8 weeks have been the most tumultuous times in the newly installed ANC government of President Jacob Zuma. And it all started after a Sunday Times story about a child born out of wedlock between the President and one Sonono Khoza.
When I read the article on that Sunday morning [...]
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
Where do you start: nationalisation, disrespecting, swearing and even disgust at elders, shooting to kill, and labelling someone a “racist little girl”?
If anyone is to write a biography on Malema – that person would certainly have it both ways. This is because the process, not to forget [...]
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
President Jacob Zuma had an affair with a woman who was not his wife. They both had a child, and as per cultural norms, Zuma did pay his dues and apologised to South Africa (and probably his wives too — one just wonders how they took the news) with the hope [...]
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
You actually did not hear me say this, but write it because some parliamentarian is reported to have told another parliamentarian (possibly the president) exactly that. Now that’s AYOBA!
One says AYOBA because this has never happened in the Mandela time, or even Mbeki time for that matter. And [...]
BY FREEMAN
The Daily Maverick recently came up with its version of last week Thursday night’s State of the Nation address delivered by President Jacob Zuma entitled, “President Zuma’s State of the Nation address – as it should be”.
Writing for the Maverick, the ever pragmatic Stephen Grootes presented what in most affable circles would pass as, well, [...]
BY ALEX MATTHEWS
Recent reports that President Jacob Zuma has fathered his twentieth child with a woman he is not married to has disturbing implications for the battle against HIV/Aids.
The three basic tenets of HIV prevention, used to great effect in Uganda in the 1990s, is “Abstain”, “Be faithful” and “Use condoms”.
By impregnating a woman he [...]
BY LUNGELO MAGUBANE
Robert Frost wrote of two roads that diverged into the woods and how his opting for the one less taken made all the difference. As President Zuma applies the finishing touches to his State of the Nation speech, one hopes that he will use this opportunity to take the people of South Africa [...]
The negotiations that will plot the world’s new climate change framework are less than six months away. But you wouldn’t think so if you listened to President Jacob Zuma’s first “State of the Nation” address. This is worrying as climate change should be on the mind of every leader, says shadow environment minister Gareth Morgan.
Africa’s top Digital Citizen Journalist, Khaya Dlanga, writes that he’s recently become a born-again South African. His faith in this country was renewed by the debates he saw, the interest young people showed in politics for the first time. He argues that, for all its imperfections, we live in a new South Africa again.
In a world where we hold onto the good of the past, whether it be rumbling through second-hand clothing stores, that family secret recipe or upholding the tradition of opening the door for lady, change will always come and has come, writes Lara Moses.
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