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PATRICK BULGER | Sudden death or genocide: Golf’s other Presidents Cup
With two major-winning golfing golfers in tow, Ramaphosa & Co take on Trump in a duel over white genocide and fake-news videos, and even if the golf wasn’t sublime, the chatter between shots helped sort the amateurs from the pros
PATRICK BULGER | Gaza revisited: Israel’s harvest of hatred
This past weekend’s Hamas attacks are a brutal reminder that time does not always heal
PATRICK BULGER | Fraction friction: traffic wardens trapped in policy fog
SA's employment equity legislation is good on paper but will hardly be welcomed by those who are told to curb their ambitions if the percentages keep them out of jobs
PATRICK BULGER | Spier of the Nation: debt-ridden state drowns its sorrows on WMC turf
As Treasury reads the state the riot act on spending, SA must contemplate an austere future. Will a commitment to cost-cutting be worth the paper it’s written on?
PATRICK BULGER | The Sputla Shuffle: a dancing comrade’s one step forward, two steps back
As load-shedding is stepped up, our electricity minister appears unmoved, except on the dance floor, where he is the picture of abandon
PATRICK BULGER | Crude Cut: a short back ’n sides for SA
Donald Trump provided the template for populists to capitalise on the old political order’s alleged failure to deliver on its promises. At home, Herman Mashaba also has some homespun answers to our problems, but what if voters and his own party are a little more cerebral than he budgeted for?
PATRICK BULGER | Internal affairs: the rise of the new global untouchables
Brics started life as a trading bloc, but under China’s tutelage and Russian guidance, it has ambitions to become a new, alternative centre of power in a Western-dominated world. But a lack of accountability is arguably the flipside of the aggressive resource nationalism that is reshaping global politics
PATRICK BULGER | Call Back the Past: ANC Youth League joins in retro rage
League is back, as loud and rude as ever, to keep the old guys on track and ensure they resist any new thinking about how to rescue SA from the abyss
PATRICK BULGER | Taxi rankings: rushing in where others fear to tread
City of Cape Town’s tough approach to the taxi industry gives the DA a chance to show it means business, which contrasts with the ANC’s kid-gloves approach
PATRICK BULGER | Soul Fire: how Malema is feedin’ the cravin’ right now
EFF’s FNB spectacular has boosted Julius Malema as a populist hopeful in next year’s elections and raises the question whether the ANC is underestimating the danger ahead



















