JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE TERRORIST ATTACKS THAT TOOK PLACE at Westgate Mall, in Nairobi last month shocked the whole world. It’s a pity because even though these incidents happen almost every day, we…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THIS WEEK THE US SENATE FINALLY came up with the bill that ends the government shutdown that lasted for weeks. It’s hard to understand why the US puts itself through…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE GERMANS RE-ELECTED ANGELA MERKEL LAST Sunday, for the third term. Her sweeping victory highlights her astounding popularity among the Germans. And perhaps it’s reasonable, the German economy remains very…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IT’S the United Nations’ (UN) Annual General Assembly this upcoming week. They say New York gets annoyingly busy on this occasion. Fareed Zakaria of Cable News Network (CNN)…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE 104 YEAR OLD McCORD HOSPITAL, in KZN, will shut down this week. Why are they shutting down? No enough funding from the government. On the other side of…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
WHENEVER ONE MAKES A STATEMENT, I think it’s very important that we take an appropriate way of disputing it. I recently echoed my thoughts on Twitter, on how our governments…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FEW WEEKS AGO I SAID MY next blog post will be about communism, whether the system would work for us today. But I’ve had a very bad week, to an extent…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN 2000, The Economist released a now‑infamous cover story on Africa titled “The hopeless continent.” At the time, Sierra Leone was engulfed in a civil war that had…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
I’M SO FORTUNATE I WAS BORN in 1988 – it’s a blessing. I’ve imagined many times how different my life would be had the opposite been true –…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE EXTRAORDINARY RISE OF CHINA WILL always remain one of the great stories of the late 20th and early 21stcentury. China’s rise to riches can largely be attributed to the…