My gut tells me the ANC won’t split, and this article is fuel on my fire. [Read on]

The Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) published a lengthy report on its international pages this morning under the headline “ANC faces split”. [Read on]

First published on my old blog on 13/6/2008. 

Living in Germany has it’s advantages – and drawbacks. One drawback is the (relative) humorless Germans. “We gotta work; got lot’s to do; no time for silly jokes, you know.” That more or less sums life up in this corner of the world. Lucky for me, there is the Internet…and the news coming from South Africa.  [Read on]

First published on my old blog on 18/1/2007. 

It’s time to look again at observations made by me recently and to forecasts based on those observations… [Read on]

First published on my old blog on 28/6/2007. 

The ANC National Policy Conference is on the go in Midrand, between Johannesburg and Pretoria, and one of the issues on the agenda is “media diversity”, or what one should really understand as “the lack of media diversity”. Or, still closer to the truth, the “overly” white ownership of the printed media, in particular newspapers.  [Read on]