by Chris Gibbons | May 13, 2015 | General
Dateline: Évora, Portugal Earlier this week, I sat sipping a glass of cold water in the main square of this beautiful Portuguese city. It’s spring here, and already very warm. But not nearly as hot as it was for hundreds of heretics, condemned by the Portuguese...
by Chris Gibbons | Apr 29, 2015 | General
At one end of our continent, hundreds of Africans are dying in a vain bid to reach Europe. At the other end, a number have been attacked and some killed in one of the regular outbreaks of xenophobia in our own country. Behind both tragic sets of circumstances is an...
by Chris Gibbons | Apr 23, 2015 | General
Lloyd Blankfein is chairman and CEO of what is arguably the world’s most profitable, most envied and most emulated investment bank, Goldman Sachs. Its detractors will tell you that not only was the bank at the centre of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, but also that...
by Chris Gibbons | Apr 15, 2015 | General
Formidable, ferocious, and some might even use words like far-sighted about departing DA leader Helen Zille. Acknowledging that her party needs new blood, she steps down, leaving a clear succession run for its current Parliamentary leader, Mmusi Maimane. He is young,...
by Chris Gibbons | Apr 9, 2015 | General
So, the University of Cape Town’s Council has voted to remove the Rhodes statue. This much was expected although it’s unclear at this stage if it will simply be shuffled off to another part of campus, or to a museum, or destroyed. Similarly, attacks have recently been...
by Chris Gibbons | Mar 27, 2015 | General
Amidst a great deal of student-led hot air, it now seems almost certain that the statue of Cecil John Rhodes will be removed from the campus of the University of Cape Town. This follows a stormy meeting at UCT this week, and also several weeks of protest by students,...
