Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Niren Tolsi is a freelance journalist whose interests include social justice, citizen mobilisation and state violence, protest, the Constitution and Constitutional Court, football and Test cricket.
Near Makhanda is a cricket pitch with claims to being the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?
Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s founding member, who died this week, took his music from hostel rooftops to music’s grandest theatres and, now, to the skies.
From tales of good demons to the quirks of bunny chow fillings and ordering beef in Bangalore, there are many ways to stick it to the Brahmins and the BJP in India.
Fana ‘Styles’ Hlongwane may not like having his picture taken but this smooth operator does appear to like blue, as was evident at his reluctant appearance before the inquiry into state capture.
Arguments over whether the public protector’s remedial action can be ‘frozen’ until a court has decided on its legality revealed the stench of politics behind the legal matter.
Two art exhibitions reveal the intimate relationship between one of South Africa’s great modernists and the city of his life.
Delhi’s food – from the street stall mo-mo to potato bread at the country’s best restaurant – stirs together what the ruling party seeks to divide: people across class, religion and caste.
South Africa’s cricket governing body continues to excel at self-harm, which is affecting the senior men’s team that was crushed in India.
The South African batsman, like many of his countrymen, has struggled in a tough Test series against the No. 1 ranked India. But he remains defiant as a vice-captain who wants to lead by example.
The National Prosecuting Authority has won the latest round in the fight for accountability after the high court dismissed the former president’s application for a permanent stay of corruption charges.
Senuran Muthusamy had a remarkable Test cricket debut with ball and bat, including taking the wicket of India’s Virat Kohli. It was enough to make his captain sit up and take notice.
The Proteas’ legendary batsman brought more to the team than his record-breaking runs. But before he earned legend status, he had to endure being reduced to an ‘outsider’.
Regional party conferences in KwaZulu-Natal will have repercussions for the ANC and its stability under Cyril Ramaphosa, leading those who remain pro-Jacob Zuma to fight for their positions.
A clash of values was inescapable when Zandile Gumede unveiled a sculpture of Hindu child martyr Valliamma Munuswamy Mudliar.
The majority of the more than 100 people killed in the province have been ANC members, but now witnesses, and even police officers, appear to be on hit lists.
Former president Jacob Zuma spent his week testifying to the commission on state capture by deflecting, misdirecting and sticking with his strategy of crying victim.
Bigwigs in the prosecuting authority played their part in Zuma’s godly game by destabilising the NPA and ensuring the prosecution of people considered enemies of the former president’s regime.
A letter purportedly proving that a high-level meeting took place in 2003 to discuss Jacob Zuma’s prosecution is the latest twist in the former president’s appeal for a permanent stay of prosecution.
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer says he is the victim of a ‘pattern of behaviour’ that has made his name synonymous with corruption, while Zuma takes pot shots at Cyril Ramaphosa.
eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede is facing charges of fraud, racketeering and corruption that implicate 62 city councillors. But how did she rise to such a powerful position?
As Sri Lanka reels from the Easter Sunday attacks, it must also confront its history of violent atrocities, secessionist sectarianism, ethnic populism and corrosive power politics.