Fiat Lux
November 11 2016 – An object lesson in how to do unto your opponents was delivered many years ago in one central African country which was ruled over by a particularly obnoxious dictator. The president had been in power for close to 20 years when an old school friend came to him to ask for a favour. The friend, a prominent architect, came to complain to the president because all…
July 30 2015 – There is so much ado about the killing of a Cecil in Zimbabwe that it makes you wonder. No, it’s not about Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist marauder who came, saw and raped a subcontinent in the nineteenth century. It’s about a lion – Cecil the Lion – that was killed by an American dentist with a hobby of trophy hunting. According to reports, Dr Walter Harper,…...
September 22 2016 – Am I alone in having this feeling, that we are witnessing unprecedented police shootings of African Americans in the United States? Feelings, of course, do not need empirical evidence to be credible, but I suspect that if one did a scientific study in this area, this feeling would be borne out. This is true: There is hardly a week that passes by these days without news…...
August 4 2016 South Africans went to the ballot box this past week to elect local councilors in what was described as a hotly contested election presenting the ruling African National Congress (ANC) with its stiffest challenge since the end of Apartheid. Indeed, early trends in the tallying of the votes indicated that the ruling party was struggling in places like Gauteng as the Democratic Alliance (DA) looked like a…...