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Marvin Meintjies


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Sunday Times deputy-editor, Marvin Meintjies, gets let out to play in his fortnightly column.


Latest Columns

When vindication

Have Cele and Zille really been let off the hook, as they claim?

Walking back to

This blunt object has turned the prez into a martyr, and shut down debate - just ahead of Mangaung

Chaos theory is no way to govern a country

We need major change in Mangaung so we can try to repair the damage that the Zuma presidency has caused

The long goodbye

More than Juju and Jacob hoped their love would last

Chops and change are still at odds in a nonracial SA

But feel me on this: there is a difference between racism and just plain stupidity

Fellow travellers pay

Our leading communist, in his chauffeur-driven BMW 750i, tells us roads are a plaything for the rich

So this vegetarian walks into a club

LIKE Snoop Dogg beefing with Kim Kardashian (google it), there's a hint of bullying in how the city of Cape Town handled the attempt at a protest at Rondebosch Common.

Crocodile hunting in grey-green greasy Limpopo

The minister of finance has the province's slippery reptiles in his sights

Wooden-spoonerism returns from the wilderness

As former judge Willem Heath re-enters the corruption-busting stage, is it time for a new round of sh**-stirring?

Winds of change blow a foul shroud over truth

The tokoloshes under the bed of our democracy are the MPs who voted for the sinister secrecy bill this week

The good, the bad and

While SA's top companies set an admirable example, the excluded join Juju and estate agents descend into bigotry

Power corrupts

Beware women in big cars, and beware men with big heads who think they are above the law

Curb this enthusiasm

Spare a thought for the havoc that hacks could wreak on an unsuspecting world if driven out of the safety of their newsrooms

Twitterati have broken story ... can u fix it?

At the Sunday Times we expect a certain amount of stick. The Sunday Times is the highest circulation newspaper in South Africa, so we understand that we will come under intense scrutiny, and be held to a higher standard than many of our peers.

State vampire takes heavy toll on cash cows in cars

There's one nationalisation campaign I would fully support. Forget the mines and banks. Let's nationalise our roads! Let the people be free to use the highways, bi-ways and freeways. Let the people drive from Jozi to Pretoria without fear of massive toll fees.

A nightmare from which we can't seem to wake

South Africa, 2020. President for Life Julius Malema has decreed that a new public holiday is to be created so that all progressive members of our society can celebrate the economic revolution of April 1 2012.

Juju's broad-based empowerment is no laughing matter

The price of a daily newspaper, R2. The entertainment value of Julius Malema's Charlie Sheen-like performance covered in-depth on the front page? Priceless.

The iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men

Not even Quentin Tarantino could dream up the kind of gangsters we have in this schizo republic.

Juju's tour of learning to Make Benefit Glorious ANC

LAND redistribution through expropriation without compensation. Nationalisation of the mines. Nationalisation of the banks.

The melanin mistake only a mampara would make

FEEL me on this. God, in his infinite wisdom, ensured the equal distribution of mamparas across race groups.