Opinionations

  The report by the Section 89 Independent Panel headed by retired judge Sandile Ngcobo raises more questions than it answers.   The differe...

At the university apparently still called Rhodes over the last week, there have been some disturbing events. A group of students published a...

Tshwane, 1 April 2016 – The South African government today announced at a press conference that South Africa is to rename its currency. The ...

I present some thoughts on why political opposition to the ANC is failing to make much of an impact on the ANC’s support base. You need to t...

I am on a short visit to the University of Michigan during my sabbatical and all hell is breaking loose at university campuses including Yal...

Now police have rioted outside parliament, attacking protesters in a style that could wake PW Botha from the dead, we have to understand why...

Several universities around South Africa are in the throes of protests about lack of transformation – UCT, Stellenbosch, Rhodes, to name a f...

Sudan president Omar al-Bashir apparently sneaked out of South Africa on 15 June 2015 as a a court was ordering his arrest on an internatio...

Spot the difference. Sad Panda Tlouamma Only Agang aficionados will get it. If you do, sign the no confidence and recall p...

Back in the 1970s, when a high-end supercomputer had about the performance of today’s entry-level cell phones and networks were expensive pr...

Back in 1955, the Congress of the People was a national gathering for those excluded from the apartheid order, which produced the Freedo...

Confusion will be my epitaph –  King Crimson I recently wrote an article signalling that I wasn’t going to write another article about...

After hearing news of events in Cape Town today, I issued the following statement. Following Agang’s MPs withdrawal of all allegations dir...

I recently quit from Agang. The party had some laudable goals including empowering ordinary people, and putting them back in charge of their...

Split of the vote since 1994 : ANC is essentially at its 1994 level after increases in 1999 and 2004; the DA has about the same share as t...

At my university ( Rhodes University in South Africa), we have a policy of not outsourcing things a university traditionally does itself ...

The ANC, I am increasingly becoming convinced, is attempting to win an election while insulting and alienating the maximum number of people....

Climate science is not fundamentally about ideology – science stands or falls by evidence. Nonetheless, when a scientific finding has econ...

Despite repeated complaints, Facebook is not lifting a ban on posting articles from Daily Dispatch , a major newspaper in South Africa. Sinc...