by Chris Gibbons | Feb 13, 2014 | Politics
Wednesday’s march by the DA on the ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg was an abject and pointless failure. It achieved nothing unpredictable or unknown and it’s a miracle that no-one was killed. It was also an enormous public inconvenience to anyone working in...
by Chris Gibbons | Dec 17, 2013 | Politics
A Most Appropriate Memorial: the Mandela School of Government I’ve been fairly quiet for the past ten days or so, thinking about the late Nelson Mandela. This was a man I interviewed on several occasions and met once, hosting him at the launch of a biography by...
by Chris Gibbons | Nov 27, 2013 | Politics
I had been about to write a blog on the awkwardness of democracy, on how it throws up winners and losers, and that, sometimes, the losers need to bite the bullet and move on. In other words, e-tolling in Gauteng, scheduled to begin next week, has been through the...
by sonya01 | Oct 16, 2013 | General, Politics
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.” So wrote William Shakespeare in his immortal comedy, As You Like It. Scholars think he penned the words somewhere...
