'PARODY is part of the satirist's arsenal and it is through this that I hope to expose the new pigs. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on where you stand, nothing is sacred."
WHAT this week proved, yet again, is that Jacob Zuma is a man of inaction or, at the very best, a man of "iffy" action who acts only when he can no longer avoid doing so.
We are standing at the precipice and it is time to choose: either we return to our democratic values or plunge into horror
They are not privileged enough to discard the shackles of race because they are reminded of it in every aspect of their lives
What happened to that gang-raped girl in Soweto is nothing new. It's all happened before, and it will all happen again
Zuma ate cake as we remembered Hani, the man who may well have led the people to 'their own version of milk and honey'
Putting cops with shady and contested reputations in control of our safety and security is a mistake we will come to regret
The DA leader's 'refugee' reference got the ANC's backs up - perhaps because the truth about the Eastern Cape hurt
Frank Chikane's political memoir whitewashes the tragic truth about a president whose blind hubris cost thousands of lives
With a minor irritation out of the way, the big question now is: who else will be vanquished on the rocky road to Mangaung?
The suicide of a 16-year-old Soshanguve boy brings home the tragedy of young lives ruined by victimisation and violence
WHEN I heard that the Reserve Bank had put out an announcement about a Saturday press conference, my heart sank.
ANC's disturbing disrespect and contempt for anyone who disagrees with it goes on display at Press Freedom Commission
King Zwelithini cowers behind claims of misinterpretation while taxpayers. including gays and lesbians, fund his royal lifestyle
I am not prepared to risk a school system that is held ransom to the whims of ministers and the ill-judgment of policy-makers
Mbeki's presence in Mangaung also brings home how far South Africa's leadership has fallen since even his troubled reign
We are provoked to outrage by the extremes of the vulgar rich, but the ugly truth about SA lies closer to (Tuscan-style) home
Post-1994, other kinds of racism have grown alongside 'traditional' white-on-black hostility in SA
What does the DA's Lindiwe Mazibuko have to offer the poor - or, for that matter, SA's middle class? Very little, it seems
Zuma's nephew just one example of shameful exploitation of South Africans - but not all of our black masters are like him
Had he listened to better advice, Jacob Zuma would have been able to enjoy a peaceful holiday this year. Alas, this is not to be
These are the women I celebrate: women whose grace owes nothing to 16 days of activism and the ANC's annual tea party
I feel shamed and betrayed by the ANC as, 20 years later, censorship again reigns in the SA media
What will Juju's suspension deliver to all those young, poverty-stricken people who believed in him as their saviour?
But when Minister Manuel scolds the spendthrifts, does he include his prodigal colleagues in the cabinet?
A small-town school illustrates that the right guidance and collaboration create a world in which our youth can do their best
How touching that former ministers are defending our rights now - too bad they didn't do so when they were in power
While a woman president was being feted with a Nobel award, a murdered lesbian was simply receiving delayed justice
The Dalai Lama debacle is final proof that the rainbow over our nation has been destroyed by our leaders' moral turpitude
We want to beat our kids into submission, but what they really need are role models with a modicum of decency and respect
