Is crime out of control?
Is crime out of control or are we simply making a noise? Police Minister, Bheki Cele, interviewed on #CrimeWatch last Wednesday evening downplayed the high crime rate and created the impression that crime was not a major problem. When I asked him about the many…
Recolonisation of Africa: Joining the red dots on the continent
The word “recolonization” is certainly not the most liked word in the vocabulary of the ruling elite of our continent, Africa. It only becomes useful when they are losing power or have fallen out of favour with their foreign handlers who now want them to…
Three reasons why SA needed the commissions of inquiry
There are no less than three commissions of inquiry running in South Africa at the moment. Just when we had thought the report by Judge Richard Nugent on his probe into South African Revenue Service (SARS) was damning as it led to the axing of…
The Untold Story of Somalia
Civil war, War Lords and Famine. Three words that have become synonymous with Somalia. The country once labelled as the Switzerland of Africa has now become one of the most tragic stories of humanity but also, of humanities ability to rebuild itself. Somalia is a…
Reflections on the Gbagbo acquittal and African sovereignty
In a letter written to his wife in 1960, just a year before his assassination, the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Patrice Lumumba, had this to say: “History will one day have its say; it will not be the…
The independent electoral commission: free and fair elections
South Africa is in election mode in the run up to the general election in May this year, which is likely to be highly contested. The leader of the ruling ANC and President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, presented its political manifesto on Saturday 12…
Dissecting the Facebook leftist conundrum
There are serious questions facing social media and especially Facebook. Questions regarding what was in fact central to our struggles during the apartheid era, especially for the so-called independent Marxist Left outside the alliance of the ruling African National Congress with the South African Communist…
Who gets paid by whom?
Political parties must declare their private funders that pay their deposits to register as parties, as well as private funders of parties already in parliament and provincial legislatures, and make public the donors who fund internal party leadership contests. South Africa has seen the mushrooming…
Have we sold our sovereignty to the BINGOs?
Following the publication of an article that charged a United Nations agency involved in wildlife with having lost its credibility and relevance in much of Southern Africa, a major non-government organization sprang to its defence. Not surprising. The non-government agencies (now known as BINGOs —…
SA can’t afford a Zimbabwe meltdown
Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has reached catastrophic proportions. With the government raising the cost of fuel from R19 to R41 a litre, fuel became more expensive in Zimbabwe than anywhere else in the world. The economic meltdown of our northern neighbour poses a serious threat to…
Iran’s Islamic Revolution at 40 – setting the stage for a New World Order
Forty years ago a momentous event took place when the Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty, installed by the CIA, fled Iran, ushering in the Iranian Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on February 1,1979. Western countries and Israel, who had dominated and exploited the…
The AU’s Project Wakanda One: A symbol of a new Africa?
Is the AU leadership watching too many movies or they are genuinely seeking to achieve the Agenda 2063? Encouraged by the famous fictitious blockbuster movie, Marvel’s Black Panther, the AU has announced an ambitious project called, Wakanda One, a technologically advanced hub or village as…
Mangena’s Toons
