After 32 years at the Diamond Fields Advertiser, including 22 as editor, Johan du Plessis steps down, leaving an unmatched legacy. His dedication has shaped both ...
CARPING POINT: Onselling electricity, at inflated prices to consumers with no other option and no value added, was always going to be problematic – just like BEE ...
CARPING POINT: Police Minister Bheki Cele has reinforced what most of us already think: that he is an arrogant and entitled politician interested only in serving ...
CARPING POINT: Cyberbullies need to be unmasked and dragged into the daylight to be publicly shamed and prosecuted, writes Kevin Ritchie.
CARPING POINT: The recent distribution of a BBC documentary, interviewing some of the people behind Operation Dudula, from the foot soldiers to the leaders, is a ...
CARPING POINT: The decision to make the Springboks play in a teal kit rather than the traditional green and gold – as a clarion call for the colour blind – is as ...
CARPING POINT: The perils of life in South Africa is the stuff of comic books and pulp fiction, but it’s happening in real time and in real life; a Wild West that ...
CARPING POINT: We have our own general elections scheduled for next year and it isn’t going to be pretty, writes Kevin Ritchie.
CARPING POINT: The BRICS conference showed us that the government can actually organise the proverbial p***-up in a brewery and rather well too, writes Kevin Ritchie. ...
CARPING POINT: The Six Nations rugby disciplinary committee set up to judge a possible sanction on England fly half Owen Farrell obviously missed their Sunday school ...
CARPING POINT: We never spoke up when we could – and when we should have. We have to speak now while we still can, writes Kevin Ritchie.
CARPING POINT: The system is still rotten today. But who is expected to step up and stop it? Us? The politicians certainly can’t, writes Kevin Ritchie.
CARPING POINT: The SAPS budget for the Hawks’ Priority Crime Investigation unit for the 23/23 financial year is R2. 247 billion according to Outa. VIP protection ...
CARPING POINT: What would happen if we let AI give us its version of the New Dawn – or even of Cyril the Meek himself? asks Kevin Ritchie.
CARPING POINT: President Cyril Ramaphosa would have been interested to learn that Ukraine, a country in the grip of a vicious war and subject to almost daily artillery ...
CARPING POINT: We need a sense of humour these days, but it’s wearing thin, writes Kevin Ritchie.
CARPING POINT: Stratcom was never a tenth as successful as destroying the ANC’s image as the ANC has been doing this all on its own, writes Kevin Ritchie.
Carping point: Given how hard it is for South African writers to take the personal risks they do and get into print, it’s incredibly galling to discover that their ...
CARPING POINT: It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday. On a scale of one to 100, it’s probably right up there with Valentine’s Day in terms of buying useless – and overpriced ...
OPINION: Stage 6 load shedding? We should consider ourselves fortunate we haven’t got to Stage 12. But don’t hedge your bets, we’ve got winter to get through this ...
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Perhaps the most shocking revelation of all was the fact that we actually have hi-tech crime command centres.
OPINION: Sibongile Mani’s a millennial legend, she’s just doing what her role-models have done before, writes Kevin Ritchie.