JOHANNESBURG: South Africans are tired of being at the forefront of the global media. We have been there a lot lately — for all the wrong reasons. First it was the Marikana massacre, when the police gunned down 34
Published 03 Mar, 2013 03:50am
FOR us South Africans, and for many across the globe, it is impossible to watch Oscar Pistorius run without a stir of emotion, without wanting to break up and cry and shout with joy. Pistorius is no ordinary hero: he is
Published 15 Feb, 2013 09:01pm
JOHANNESBURG: The story of the London-listed Lonmin's Marikana mine shootings is that of a trade union that cosied up to big business; of an upstart and populist new union that exploited real frustration to establish
Published 19 Aug, 2012 02:51am
THE last undemocratically elected president of South Africa, the Nobel Peace laureate FW de Klerk, has in recent months been holding forth on the state of the nation. It’s a familiar view: that South Africa is becoming
Published 28 Jul, 2012 12:03am
ON Tuesday morning, my friend Stefaans Brummer, arguably South Africa`s best investigative journalist, sent me a text message
Published 24 Nov, 2011 08:51pm
