The level of thinking within the ANC Youth League is shocking, and the things its leadership says sound like lines straight out of a stand-up comedy show.
Is South Africa a multicultural society or just a society with multiple cultures on a perpetual collision course.
Deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, Pieter Mulder's statement that Africans have no claim to 40% of South Africa has many politically correct people baying for his blood.
In the spirit of Valentine's day I just had to share this account of a wedding ceremony where the presiding priest tried all he can to discourage the bridal couple from tying the knot. It came to me through spam email.
A visibly agitated Tavern owner in Thembisa, on the East Rand, told me that liquor outlets will be forced to keep pregnancy test kits when the draft Gauteng Liquor Bill of 2012 becomes law.
The killers of 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana each got 14 years in jail, and some rhino poachers got 25 years. Something wrong with this picture.
The adoption by the African Union of a plan to create a continental free trade area by 2017 brings fresh hope that Africa may be finally waking up from its centuries of slumber and taking an initiative towards its economic freedom.
Gay rights and other rights activists have for the past weeks vilified King Zwelithini for having allegedly called gay relationships “rotten” – now it appears he never did.
At a time when South Africa needs the Promotion of Access to Information Act, promulgated on 2 February 2000, the government is taking the access away through the Protection of State Information Bill.
Sporting royalty including Boris Becker and Bobby Charlton from the past will be rubbing shoulders with today's stars among them Usain Bolt and Vivian Cheruiyot at the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards in London on Monday, February 6.
My 16 year-old son refuses to play cricket or rugby because, he says, he doesn’t want to be labelled a ‘token Black’ like bowlers Makhaya Ntini, Monde Zondeki and Lonwabo Tsotsobe who this week became the highest ranked South African ODI bowler.
This week has been a crazy one when it comes to news. I mean the ANC Youth League seems to have done a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of the “dead snake” known as former President Thabo Mbeki and US soldiers piss on dead Taliban freedom fighters.
Julius Malema recently marched to Pretoria demanding "economic freedom" in his lifetime. The economic chaos in Europe continues unabated and it seems we are not out of the recession yet. So I asked Hein du Plessis, Managing Director of DebtSafe for ten tips to financial freedom this year.
The year 2011 was marred by stories of police officers sexually assaulting victims they were supposed to protect, this and many other stories of rampant corruption made me ashamed to be South African.
Drug mules must be the dumbest animals on earth next to drug addicts and followers of institutionalised religion. The ones who get caught are probably just decoys so the real mules carrying serious weight can go through.
Nationalisation, it seems, is as stubborn as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s - the miniskirt - you cannot keep it down.
The Laureus World Sports Awards are upon us and here at "Straight & Two Beers" we take a closer look at at the contenders, including Homare Sawa and Yani Tseng, two amazing sport stars from the Far East, who are among the favourites to be nominated for the 2012 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award.
I read that the University of Stellenbosch reversed its decision to grant a pupil a place in medical school - after discovering that she was white, and was saddened. Saddened because it reminded me of how things used to be for us as Black people.
Somebody very high up called me a sell-out because I didn’t share ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's enthusiasm for the nationalisation of the economy. He said 'Blacks like me' were do-gooders, conformists and pawns who would do anything to be accepted by Whites.
Political revolutions are usually the result of poor or oppressive government, and many times end in a worse situation than before. This seems to be the scenario playing itself out in South Africa with the passing of the controversial Protection of State Information Bill.
