And the Oscar Trial Goes On and On and On…
For everyone’s sake, let’s hope the trial winds down soon. What started off as a showcase of our legal expertise has turned into Comedy...
Devastating Voting News for Expats from Four Cities
Unfortunately the votes from four overseas cities have not been counted as they did not reach South Africa before the IEC's deadline of 9...
SA Opinion on Response to Kidnappings as Amnesty Says Nigerian Government...
As news comes this afternoon that the Nigerian Government apparently knew of Boko Haram's planned kidnapping of over 240 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok...but failed to...
An Ode to F!
While we await the final voting results, and in the light of Julius Malema's EFF party coming third in the South African Elections after gaining...
Helen Zille Responds to Reports of Dumped Ballot Papers
UPDATE (9.15 pm, 08 May 2014): Helen Zille from the DA has just tweeted: "Re the ballots that were found: auditing has established that...
Radio Show challenges SANRAL on Half a Million Bill!
Highveld 94.7 is at it again. This week radio presenter Darren Simpson phoned SANRAL to complain about a genuine e-tolls bill that demanded almost...
A Weekend Without Counsel for Oscar
It’s most likely been a very long and lonely weekend for Oscar Pistorius without his defence team to reassure him and coach him. Legal...
Watch Oscar cross-questioned by Gerrie Nel this Morning
State prosecutor Gerrie Nel is proving as tenacious as a "pit-bull" in his cross-questioning of Oscar Pistorius in the trial in which Oscar is...
A Poem for returning South Africans from the UK
It’s high time someone in South Africa spoke up about something that we’ve all been too timid to raise for far too long, either...
Nigeria Overtakes South Africa as Africa’s Largest Economy
Oh no! Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy. The long-awaited release of yesterday's recalculated report on Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP)...