TOM EATON | Business as usual, but where’s the DA? The silence is unusual
The famously raucous opposition is nowhere to be seen while the ANC fawns at autocrats 03 December 2024 – 04:30 It’s been business as usual from the ANC lately, or,….
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TOM EATON | Marriage of (in)convenience: what Ramaphosa will condemn and what he won’t
At this point it’s safe to assume that Pyongyang and Pretoria are distant allies, and maybe not so distant 24 October 2024 – 21:43 When Cyril Ramaphosa was negotiating the….
TOM EATON | New Tshwane mayor is about learn the real nature of the proverbial elephant
Nasiphi Moya sounds earnest about not letting the ‘grass suffer’, but local coalition politics are a whole other beast 10 October 2024 – 21:26 New Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has….
TOM EATON | The devil is always in the details — Eskom generation capacity
We should be demanding an explanation of two contradictory realities 13 August 2024 – 07:01 Three months ago, the headline was adamant: André De Ruyter was saying Eskom “can’t be….
TOM EATON | Zuma’s fight with the ANC — or lessons on what you can and can’t do with cake
Zuma is fighting to stay a member of the ANC even though his MK Party contested the May elections against the ANC 01 August 2024 – 21:58 As Jacob Zuma….
Jagger Eaton, Nyjah Huston medal in men’s street skateboarding at Paris Olympics
Americans Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston picked up silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the men’s skateboarding street final on Monday afternoon at the Paris Olympics. Eaton and Huston each….
TOM EATON | US politics are fractured, and the old rules don’t apply any more
The real fear is that come November, a majority of Americans will use democracy to announce that they are done with it 22 July 2024 – 21:29 Ninety-one years ago….
TOM EATON | The true miracle is ‘ordinary’ folks believing they’re disposable in the biblical tales of leaders
The rhetoric around the attempted shooting of Donald Trump says a lot about our relationship with power 15 July 2024 – 22:58 As Americans wonder how and why Thomas Crooks….
TOM EATON | A ‘miraculous drop’ calls for a miraculous rebound: time for EFF to consider its options
Simmering below Mzwanele Manyi’s dim-witted tweet is the real question of the red berets’ existential crisis
TOM EATON | Homegrown hustlers will feel the winds of change sweeping across the globe
The world’s politicians are going through the wringer at the moment 08 July 2024 – 22:17 As change erupts across the world, politicians mired in the old order are facing….