by Chris Gibbons | Jul 9, 2015 | General
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part II. My oldest son is a lawyer, so that’s no longer a phrase that carries much currency in the Gibbons household. But I do know what the Bard of Avon was on...
by Chris Gibbons | Jun 26, 2015 | General
Close your eyes and imagine a very different speech from the one actually delivered by President Jacob Zuma, but based on the same report into the Marikana killings from the Farlam Commission. It might have started something like this: “Good evening, fellow South...
by Chris Gibbons | Jun 17, 2015 | General
I’ve heard some howls of impotent rage from South Africa’s liberals and chattering classes down the years, but the one that went up in the wake of the departure by Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir was probably the most futile. Let’s be absolutely clear. There was no...
by Chris Gibbons | Jun 11, 2015 | General
I was having a grumpy morning. I had just read an excellent piece in Business Day by Allister Sparks, pointing out the extreme insanity and likely corruption underpinning the proposed R1 trillion nuclear power acquisition programme (https://tinyurl.com/o397d6w)...
by Chris Gibbons | Jun 3, 2015 | General
At the grand old age of 79, and despite resounding re-election for a fifth term, FIFA President Sepp Blatter has fallen on his sword. At a Zurich news conference yesterday evening he announced that he would be stepping down and that a Special Congress would be held to...
by Chris Gibbons | May 21, 2015 | General
Sometimes watching government is no different from watching a four year-old. Especially when you’ve just walked into your kitchen and the four year-old appears to be doing nothing of any consequence but has chocolate smears on his or her fingers and face. You know...
