After 32 years at the Diamond Fields Advertiser, including 22 as editor, Johan du Plessis steps down, leaving an unmatched legacy. His dedication has shaped both ...
Tony Howard - Former Deputy Chairman Independent Media
The brief was simple, take a vehicle built in South Africa and showcase it to the continent. And thus Nissan’s Daring Africa 2024 was born.
Times have changed, but papers survive; on less money, far less staff and far greater pressure than ever before.
South Africans might quibble about Rassie Erasmus’s selections, but for most he can do no wrong.
CARPING POINT: Onselling electricity, at inflated prices to consumers with no other option and no value added, was always going to be problematic – just like BEE ...
Onselling electricity, at inflated prices to consumers with no other option.
CARPING POINT: Police Minister Bheki Cele has reinforced what most of us already think: that he is an arrogant and entitled politician interested only in serving ...
This week, Parliament found Cele’s behaviour had been unbecoming of his office.
CARPING POINT: Cyberbullies need to be unmasked and dragged into the daylight to be publicly shamed and prosecuted, writes Kevin Ritchie.
Cyberbullies need to be unmasked and dragged into the daylight to be publicly shamed and prosecuted.
CARPING POINT: The recent distribution of a BBC documentary, interviewing some of the people behind Operation Dudula, from the foot soldiers to the leaders, is a ...
The documentary is horrifying on so many levels.
CARPING POINT: The decision to make the Springboks play in a teal kit rather than the traditional green and gold – as a clarion call for the colour blind – is as ...
Whatever the case, it’s a marketing godsend for Checkers.
CARPING POINT: The perils of life in South Africa is the stuff of comic books and pulp fiction, but it’s happening in real time and in real life; a Wild West that ...
The Hawks raided a Cash-in-Transit gang base in Makhado, Limpopo.
CARPING POINT: We have our own general elections scheduled for next year and it isn’t going to be pretty, writes Kevin Ritchie.
We have our own general elections scheduled for next year and it isn’t going to be pretty.
CARPING POINT: The BRICS conference showed us that the government can actually organise the proverbial p***-up in a brewery and rather well too, writes Kevin Ritchie. ...
The BRICS conference showed us that the government can actually organise the proverbial piss-up in a brewery and rather well too.
CARPING POINT: The Six Nations rugby disciplinary committee set up to judge a possible sanction on England fly half Owen Farrell obviously missed their Sunday school ...
The decision is in direct contrast to world rugby’s campaign to cut down head injuries and foul play.
Erasmus pioneered the bomb squad five years ago in Japan and then took on world rugby over the standard of refereeing.
CARPING POINT: We never spoke up when we could – and when we should have. We have to speak now while we still can, writes Kevin Ritchie.