Read and introspect – you could find it enlightening
The political situation in our country at this moment can be described in many ways, few of which are salutary. We are directionless, we have no government, we are ...
Vote with your heads and not your hearts
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that the young people who are either newly qualified to vote should not become like folks who regard election day as a fun day. He urges ...
A vote too crucial to waste
‘It is a cruel vote, a crucial vote, a vote that will either effect change (but not just for the sake of change), but a collective voice saying: 30 years of messing ...
Seize the day, enjoy the moment for whose turn is next?
COLUMN: I find myself doing little personalised inventories on and of myself. It is in my conscience every day, but sometimes – and these days it’s “more of than ...
Party rhetoric is as harmless as a rah-rah rallying call
COLUMN: I am not launching a personalised attack, as I am only a columnist. I look at my own experiences, try to make them resonate with my readers and then we move ...
Failure to build a nation with a work ethic
COLUMN: There have been those who sneered and asked: “What makes you think you are a columnist?” My answer has been that I was lucky to have been involved in language ...
My two dear friends. You taught me well
COLUMN: Two deaths during this period left me disconnected and confused. I could not function creatively, nor could I understand or explain my surreal disconnection ...
The journey to ace matric starts now
COLUMN: My column is driven by my direct involvement with my youngest grandson, Zachary, who is now in matric. I am conflicted, because I do not want him to see ...
Make the most of fleeting time
COLUMN: We can become proactive in living in a way that assumes that each day is your last, each breath your final gasp
Motive for ICJ case questioned: Vote gathering?
COLUMN: We must bear in mind that in the international family, our country resorts among the bottom feeders, the failures, the junk status in the world of economics ...
Some of us have it all, some have nothing
COLUMN: Finally, it can be illustrated by the incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, for example, being knocked down on the street ...
To shake off the myths and stand up for yourself
As the opening gambit for my first column for 2024, I wish to thank the Almighty Giver of Life and Love for mercies to all, past and present. May the coming year ...
Despairing for our ravaged country in what should be a joyous period
COLUMN: I read a report of a woman who was on her way home with her young daughter along Voortrekker Road in Maitland. That was at three in the morning. Somehow, ...
NHI is a dangerously ill-considered proposition
COLUMN: The folly of the projected National health pie-inthe-sky drivel currently being touted by our favourite cousins, the ANC. As noble as it appears, it is fiscal ...
I have heard people say that Bellville could justifiably be renamed Somaliland
OPINION: My essay is triggered by the alarming metamorphosis that is evident at the centre of Bellville. This area used to house supermarkets and insurance brokerages, ...
South Africa has devolved into a circus of ironies
COLUMN: I shall deal with some truths that I have circumvented since the advent of this column because I am not the conscience of a society, nor a trained researcher ...
‘Of course, I am not speaking to the privileged minority or the traitors who exchanged our national dream’
COLUMN: I have no illusions that I speak for anybody or that I have found the magic cure for our national ills. I try to spice up my efforts weekly (weakly) with ...
No, no, no. Our priorities are warped and bitterly unco-ordinated to our real needs
COLUMN: A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a government entity established by an act of legislation to earn profit for the government so that they can provide products ...
Miscreants have been named but not yet shamed
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that all the miserable purveyors of inefficiency and lack of expertise are walking about freely, waiting patiently to be voted back ...
We are afraid to visit the past with an open mind
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that we have made fear, and blame the chief players in the field of health and health-giving discourse that might move us towards the ...
Our rulers loll like fat swine in mud baths while children, women and the aged are brutalised
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that the rulers in the country loll like fat swine in a mud bath while children, women and the aged are brutalised.
'We are captains of our own fates. What happens to you is what you allow’
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that the country, and its citizens, can learn from my own experience showing that success only equals the effort one puts into the pursuit ...
We were consigned to cruel and insensitive racial categories by the erstwhile Nationalist government
OPINION: Where in the world can illiterate taxi drivers hold a whole society to ransom because they have a problem obeying laws designed for safety and efficiency? ...
The disappointments and vagaries of fate that we suffer because certain people place themselves above the law
Last week I wrote what I considered a passionate piece based on the shenanigans going on in the streets of our province. The piece was not published because my day ...
I now know the meaning of the defunct appellation Ottentottu/Quena
COLUMN: The task of improving literacy is traditionally left to the teacher, but the parent is really the first epistemic agency in the child’s journey towards literacy. ...