Eric Miyeni is best known as an urban intellectual, and like all South Africans, is entitled to his opinions, but as a writer, is this the best that he can do? No. We’ve read better from him before. Miyeni has published a piece on Ferial Haffajee, the editor of the City Press, as a response to the article on the source of...
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Local government elections. Politics at the lowest level, at its least sexiest, sometimes dirtiest, and yet politics at its most critical. There are over 23 million registered voters, and unlike previous local government elections, it is anticipated that over 50% will vote. Polls open at 7:00AM at 23 000 polling stations across 19...
read moreCote d’Ivoire’s post electoral crisis has been a dramatic moving picture, with events in the past three weeks threatening to undo the economic and political progress that has been made. After a decade of civil war, strife and promises of democracy Cote d’Ivoire (CDI) finally held presidential elections on the 31 October. This...
read moreAhh, Twitter. Love it, hate it, it cannot be ignored, just ask Floyd Shivambu. It was instrumental in Iran’s Green Revolution, according to western media. It wasn’t instrumental in the Green Revolution, according to Malcolm Gladwell. Whatever your views on its relevancy, its here to stay, and usage seems to be increasing in...
read moreIt’s traffic-jam season in Manhattan again. While we’re conducting a mid-term review of those good old Polokwane policies down in Durban, I mean eThikwini, New York hosted the beginning of the 65th United Nations General Assembly, and also the Millennium Development Goals Summit. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at all...
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