E-Tolls: The Story of Africa
South African news is buzzing with a story that has been bubbling under, particularly in the mineral-rich province of Gauteng, for quite a while...
Brexit: Why you don’t have to panic
"Let June 23 go down in history as our Independence Day.” So says Nigel Farage, leader of the Eurosceptic UK Independence party, who is...
D-Day for the USA
Tomorrow, 9 November 2016, the world will wake up a very different place, as the United States heads to the polls.
And depending on who...
How Twitter is Helping Shape the Revolution
The Revolution will not be televised!
If you turned on the news or picked up a newspaper in the past couple of weeks, you...
All deaths matter. But do some matter more?
In my home city Cape Town over the last two weeks, two murders have made the headlines: those of 19-year-old Sinoxolo Mafevuka and 16-year-old Franziska...
President Michael
Back in 1936, a mother received news she was with child. In July of 1937, her bundle of joy arrived, a baby boy and...
Obama Gives Kanye West Some Advice About Getting Into Politics
President Barack Obama gave Kanye West some advice about getting elected on Saturday.
The rapper recently announced he was running for president in 2020. Obama,...
ANCHORING AUTHORITY
The joy of social media is that as soon as I got home last night, President Zuma’s decision to replace David van Rooyen with...
Did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attack?
Those following world events will know that two significant things happened over the last week. Armed militants, reportedly linked to al Qaeda, attacked the offices...
#FeesMustFall – what is a Christian to do?
Most of South Africa’s main universities are currently closed.
What started as a movement against higher education fee increases, has turned into a violent protest. ...