Category: Television

“Is there a more appropriate – or more sinister – metaphor for the state of the country right now than a deadly cholera outbreak just spitting distance from the Union Buildings? Unless something more complex (climate change-related, perhaps) is at play, it would appear the dead and sick are victims not only of waterborne bacteria… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 28 May 2023

“In the early 2000s, I travelled to Baghdad accompanying a charitable foundation as it delivered much-needed medical supplies to a country in the grip of international sanctions. The group was led by an energetic and affable doctor called Imtiaz Sooliman, a devout, bespectacled man who spoke so quickly his words overlapped. More than 20 years… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 21 May 2023

“Hands up if you’d heard of Al Jama-ah before this year. I confess, prior to them becoming a type of mayoral conveyor belt in Johannesburg, I hadn’t heard of them either. Enormous credit, then, to the ANC, EFF, and Patriotic Alliance for recognising in this previously obscure political movement, with its dozens of supporters, a… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 14 May 2023