Tom Eaton Columnist

Tom Eaton is one of SA's most prominent newspaper columnists, also known for his cricket writing. He has also written screenplays and several books, including The De Villiers Code (2005) and Is It Me or Is It Getting Hot in Here?: Great Expectations and Boiling Frogs in South Africa (2020).

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | A national health scheme is great, as long as it’s not run by the ...

A world in which the poor might have their suffering alleviated while the ANC simply doesn’t exist

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Oh to be a fly on the wall at the different political Christmas ...

At least the PA and EFF have somewhere to celebrate, unlike the ANC after a high court sheriff rifled through Luthuli House looking for assets to ...

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Ramaphosa’s admiration for China has a sinister ring to it

Our president wants us to be more like China, which, depending how you interpret it, has scary connotations

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Turning on the charm and turning on a tap are sadly the same for ...

A president standing at a tap, applauding the water coming out, 30 years down the line is a symbol of failure

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Koko’s hollow victory sounds a death knell for post-Zondo quest for ...

He hasn’t been acquitted, but ANC is starving the NPA of money that it needs to bring state capture accused to book

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Cyril and his jolly crew of buccaneering roustabouts must be made ...

SA’s landlubbing pirates are perfectly at ease causing economic havoc on land and along our coastline

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Who would have a snowball’s chance against Kohli and Co?

I’m not sure this Indian team can be beaten at this World Cup

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Whitney Houston’s prophetic songs have come back to haunt SA

As Whitney sang, ‘our children are our future’, but their present is an indisputable disaster area

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Your own tailored AI movie coming to a flat-screen near you

During the course of Hollywood’s 118-day strike, the concept of AI has circled like a vulture over the industry

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | It seemed random, but Malema knew exactly what he was doing

At first glance his denouncement of the Boks seems odd, but the EFF leader understands political parties’ priorities as we approach an election