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 | Here's how the Simelane saga might play out

For Ramaphosa to axe Thembi Simelane, here's what has to happen ....

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Business as usual, but where’s the DA? The silence is unusual

The famously raucous opposition is nowhere to be seen while the ANC fawns at autocrats

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Why we should care about the disintegration of Malema’s party

For the commander in chief, it is entirely personal, writes Tom Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention this earlier ...

It’s uncertain how one starts to get to grips with that intensity of derangement, writes Tom Eaton

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TOM EATON | No-one needs a prophet to tell them Mboro is a holey man

Paseka ‘Mboro’ Motsoeneng's high jinks should be met with a large dose of scepticism

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Shiver me timbers — what’s going on with the shrinking navy?

The shrinking navy seems not to be an issue of logistics or even national pride but of money

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Plumb the depths — and be careful not to be ‘trapped’

As the siege in North West unfolds, South Africans are caught in a bind: dealing with breakers of the law may imply suspending that same law

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TOM EATON | Things are hotting up for Msholozi’s Kakistocracy Ponzi

MK Party offers a free-for-all; a new frontier in which all people are equal as long as they know they’re less equal than Zuma

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | How Donald Trump was resurrected from a political grave and ...

American voters have abandoned their last liberal pretences of morality and voted for self interest

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Win or lose, Trump will be with us for years to come

For tens of millions of Americans a Kamala Harris win would just signal that tyranny has taken hold