“Sunday World owes Zahara no apology” – says editor in dismissing my complaint

Last week Sunday the tabloid newspaper, Sunday World, published an article headlined “Zahara’s their maid – Sisters believe Nciza is ripping her off” in which it alleged the musician was broke as hell (my emphasis). It was after analysing the article that I realised something was missing.

Blacks say Zille “deserves a bullet”. And her response?

Last week Sunday morning I woke up to a group debate on Facebook that challenged (or did it invite?) people to share their views on whether Democratic Alliance leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille was “still” haunted by her 20 March tweet in which she referred to pupils from Eastern Cape province seeking better education in hers as “education refugees”. To date Zille had on more than two occasions written about the incident.

Annelie Botes deserves her K Sello Duiker Memorial Award

The decision by the South African Literary Awards to withdraw Annelie Botes’s K Sello Duiker Memorial Award (in the last minute?) for her comments that she does not like black people because she did not understand them [and does not intend understanding them at all, it seems] is uncalled for, unfair and not professional.