Eparkeni

The one thing the world can agree on is that there’s an arm-long list of people that US President Donald Trump doesn’t like. What one couldn’t quite put a finger on was exactly which culprit had him pulling at his orange mope the most. The list was an erratic flux between Putin, Maduro, Greenland, Iran, … War and sanctions as Pillay wins peace prize Read More »

Barely a month until the local government election and the July Constitutional Court ruling has suddenly been resurrected and thrown a spanner in the works. The #Abahambe lot, specifically Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma has come out guns blazing, glibly uttering a slip-up that has seen Black Twitter intent on mopping the floor with her. In the face … Violence erupts just weeks to LGE 2026 Read More »

It’s Day 45 of my ’emergency’ situation but still about another two weeks away from an appointment with an orthopedic specialist. Only then will they decide whether to operate on my leg but it’s hard to hold one’s breath. Not when Spotlight’s reporting has been painting an unoptimistic and gloomy picture of a severe backlog … Day 45 on the NC province’s surgery waiting list Read More »

In a well-planned but fundamentally ill-calculated move, Lex Libertas et al have set themselves – and by consequence, the rest of us – on a path of tension, resentment, suspicion and from which there is no going back, for them or anybody else. Wish I could say it was impulsive. That they did not properly … Politicking in the name of the dead Read More »

Following the colossal blunder by himself and his team, one would’ve expected Fikile Mbalula to be immediately placed on special leave instead of sitting pretty at Luthuli House. But if the video clips are anything to go by, Mbaks is still the swaggering Comrade SG – bouncy gait, megalonous voice, an inscouciant swell, almost as … LGE 2026: When factions make it hard to push “submit” Read More »

Lennerd is an Afrikaner seemingly on a US H-2A visa and works on a farm somewhere in North Dakota. On the sprawling fields rise monstrous tractors – the sort that look unlike anything one would ordinarily see on a plaas somewhere in Mzansi. Cows smack their lips in the background and Lennerd cuts the camera … US bans travel visas to SA officials and Lennerd goes to America Read More…