The Trump days ahead
In a week the world will have a new leader – President-elect Donald Trump.
The Financial Times named him their Person of the Year for...
Is Theresa May in a rush to leave Europe?
The world is still reeling from the historic referendum in June, this year when the United Kingdom, decided to leave the European Union.
And it...
Barack Obama – The Farewell of the Century
For some, it maybe difficult to stomach that the White House will soon have a different inhabitant.
This transition is possibly even harder after Barack...
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History – Season Two
Malcolm Gladwell is back with season two of his podcast series Revisionist History.
The podcast series takes a look at past events and asks critical...
Ferguson On Fire
We recently wrote a post called State of Emergency in Missouri. In it we, like many others, were eagerly waiting to hear a decision that...
A Different Kind of Television
You may ask why another Whitehouse drama is worth watching. Between the heightened melodrama of Olivia Pope in Shonda Rhimes' Scandal (South Africans know the show as The...
Ransom for the Chibok Girls
In April, militant group, Boko Haram abducted nearly 300 girls from a boarding school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria. Dozens of the girls escaped, but...
It’s coalition season
Last week, I wrote about the “democracy test” South Africa was faced with as her people headed to the polls on 3 August 2016.
This...
Can (South) Africa pass the democracy test again?
Elections are a big deal.
And depending on when you’re reading this, South Africa will be heading to the polls or votes will be counted, in...