Chief Justice Mogoeng live on Advocate for transformation in the judiciary

On Friday night, 14 October, I had the opportunity to listen to the recently appointed South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng on SA FM addressing the University of Western Cape. The Chief justice’s address was themed Advocate for transformation in the judiciary. I should add that at first I found the Chief Justice quite lazy that I even wondered if I was going to listen to his address throughout.

My Open Letter to Shrien Dewani

Shrien, I am sure by now you know the whole world knows that you are alleged to being the mastermind behind the murder of your wife, Anni, on November 13 2010. Poor Anni. If only she knew when she thought she was coming to this beautiful country for honeymoon that she was going to be killed like a dog. Even dogs are not killed like that anymore. Or at least not where I come from.

Media portrayed ‘this election as if they are all about service delivery’?

Just a few hours before last week’s local government elections, I received an inbox message from what seemed like an African National Congress loyalist urging about 171 of his Facebook friends to use our “democratic right” to “vote for the ANC”. The loyalist went even further, bizzarely nogal, to claim that the South African Media had portrayed the election as if it was all about service delivery when, in fact, we should be fighting for “economic freedom”. Really?

ANC’s double standard on the unenclosed toilet saga

When the Democratic Alliance-led city of Cape Town was slapped with a Court order over a week ago for its unenclosed toilet saga in the Makhaza informal settlement and being called a “racist political party” by ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu for that – little did we know that an ANC-led municipality in the Free State province had also provided a community with the unenclosed toilets too just as did DA.