Floyd Shivambu (ANC Youth League spokesperson) has announced that Helen Zille (leader of the DA & premier of the Western Cape) has been sleeping around, and that means that she’s been sleeping around, because sleeping around is sleeping around. It doesn’t involve sex. Or it might. Then again it may not. 702 dj Redi Direko [...]

Countless blog postings, thousands of words and hundreds of thousands of characters later, I am often asked where I find not only the time but also the inspiration to blog. This I can tell you in three words… “I don’t know”
I suppose some of it is a frustrated novelist caught up somewhere deep inside me, [...]

Wow time flies when you are having fun, buying dogs, saving the world, preventing an out break of Swine Flu and solving the worlds economic crisis… And all that while you are sitting in your pajamas blogging! I was of course referring to me, President Obama has had a much tougher time than that. The [...]

A few months ago I was interviewed by a journalist from Chicago University about the impact certain issues would have on the outcome of the elections, issues like the Scorpions, JZ’s trial and a few others. Here is a brief extract from my response…
It seems impossible (to me) to comprehend that the electorate cannot see [...]

Things are unfolding pretty much as expected, the ANC majority is climbing towards the two thirds, the DA have put on a pretty good showing, the minority parties have all but disappeared and the only disappointment seems to be COPE, whose support just didn’t seem to materialise.
Will they stick around for another 5 years and [...]