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Trump, ‘Boers’ and propaganda
(First published in Groundup, South Africa) Words can be plucked out of historical and literary context and weaponised. As such, they can be used to harm individuals and groups or to rally bullies and persecutors. There have been classic examples in recent history, and last week there was a globally broadcast example of a more […]
Satire, race and ‘Afrikaners’
May 14, 2025
I once maintained that it would be impossible to write and produce a good satirical show in today’s South Africa. Now I am sure I was right: even before any writing is complete, reality will make the subject matter redundant. Mind you, this week’s Amerikan refugee saga took matters to an even more ludicrous level […]
Lessons from the ‘election season’
July 9, 2024
Those of you who have viewed the latest Reality Unleashed podcast (available below) will have realised that it was produced before the second round of the French election, when the combined Left trounced the, until then, rampant Right. This does not, I think, alter the analysis in the podcast. In fact, it is reinforced if […]
Gramsci, technology & hope for the future
January 4, 2018
Those in positions of power continue to bury their heads in the sand, constantly prophesying that the economic crisis is heading towarda recovery. But each of these predictions is as hollow as the next. If the system is to recover, it will only be at the most horrendous cost in terms of human suffering as well as in massive environmental despoilation. However, there is hope.
The real message of International Women’s Day
March 6, 2016
Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day (IWD). It comes at a time of ongoing global economic crisis and when we, in South Africa, face further massive job losses, turmoil on the university campuses and in the labour movement. Perhaps, as never before, has the real message of the founders of IWD been more pertinent.
SA xenophobia – a personal comment
April 19, 2015
Watching the xenophobic filth that has again risen to the surface of our proclaimed democratic and supposedly humane society, I feel like demanding: Do not forgive us, for know exactly what we do.
A micro-chip road to real democracy
April 10, 2014
Some food for thought about the future as the economic crisis continues, elements of barbarism and instability seem to be spreading to various arts of the globe — and as South Africa heads to another election.
Hypocrisy, hot air & some hope for the future
December 6, 2013
Regular readers of this column over the past decade may be forgiven for feeling frustrated and annoyed by the current goings on within Cosatu and the wider, governing, alliance. As noted last week, we have heard it all before. But the irony and hypocrisy displayed now seems to have reached new levels. Apparently blissfully […]
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