It is easy to look at the cry for cigarette sales to be reopened as a cry from ordinary South Africans dying (no pun intended) out of nicotine deprivation. But it is not. It is […]
Huffing and puffing over cigarettes
Diversity and inclusion
Let me tell you a story of Qondeni Ngcobo. She is a 50-year-old woman born in Zululand in KwaZulu Natal. She was born into abject poverty. Like most of her peers and those who grow […]
We Need A New Heritage
On behalf of my foundation, The Rams Mabote Foundation and the initiative we have established, Future Kings, it is my singular honour and privilege to be your guest speaker marking this Heritage Day. Greetings to […]
Future Kings: Giving our boys new stories
Many times people ask me: “What is the end game of Future Kings? What do the boys take with them after the programme?” When this question is posed, I know what people mean: “Do the […]
Babes Wodumo: It is about Mampintsha not Masechaba
Why now? This question must bother us as severely as we are bothered by the story of Mampintsha’s historical abuse of Babes Wodumo. He has admitted the abuse, hence I don’t call it alleged. Many […]
Men’s Ego was largely behind #SandpaperGate
How we raise our young, especially the young men, has a major impact on what society we breed. Now that the ill-fated Australian cricket tour to South Africa has come to a shameful end, maybe […]
Hefner: A beneficiary of a biased court of public opinion
Hugh Hefner is dead. Long live The Hef. Love him or hate him, Hefner captured the world’s imagination living his dream surrounded by a posse of women and living with them in his Playboy Mansion. […]
The good, the bad and the not-so-funny of #MbekiOnPower
Much has been spoken, written and whispered about last Thursday’s epic #MbekiOnPower – the Inaugural Chairman’s Conversation with President Thabo Mbeki conducted by PowerFM’s chairman Given Mkhari. Let me start at the top: this was […]
Helen gives Mmusi’s credibility a kiss of death
I am putting my head on the block. From a reputation and credibility point of view, Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance will never survive the crime Helen Zille committed. On Tuesday […]
Prasa spokesperson chooses sickness over truth
If Nana Zenani comes back to work next week with a resignation letter or a requesting to be moved to any other department but media relations, I would understand. This spokesperson of the Passenger Rail […]