Tag: carte blanche

WORLD WIDE WEBB “As a student, I took a room at a digs not far from what was then the Rand Afrikaans University where I lived in raucous, care-free splendour for a year. It was a large house with, as I recall, six or seven bedrooms, a kitchen overflowing with dirty crockery, and a lounge… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 2 April 2023

WORLD WIDE WEBB “The murder of Cloete Murray and his son, Thomas, is stomach-churning. Both were at the forefront of attempts to recover the proceeds of state capture, so piecing together a possible motive for their assassination isn’t difficult. They lived in a space where making enemies was easy and took their last breaths in… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 26 March 2023

WORLD WIDE WEBB “I’m a sucker for small-town Karoo. I have been ever since driving a student friend’s grandmother from Kakamas to Cape Town in her battered Nissan Skyline. Lamb’s tails, pumpkin with apricot jam, concrete farm pools, outdoor showers and nights spent under impossibly bright stars: it’s easy to see why so many are… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 19 March 2023

WORLD WIDE WEBB “It’s been several weeks since ‘that’ interview on eNCA, and it remains a national obsession. Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter’s heart-to-heart with journalist, Annika Larsen, flung dozens more pigeons into a coop already overrun by cats. And yet, in an outcome befitting the general malaise surrounding our power utility, many feel… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 12 March 2023

WORLD WIDE WEBB “Once, while covering a taxi protest, I found myself on one of dozens of minibuses driving at snail’s pace down the N1. Midway through a live radio crossing, the drivers stopped, disembarked and, in a show of urinary unity, collectively relieved themselves on the highway. Judging by what’s been happening in Cape… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 5 March 2023

WORLD WIDE WEBB “It’s hard to be pragmatic staring at the remains of an elephant. Certainly, one that suffered a painful death at the hands of poachers. But, in this country, conversations – even those on conservation – are complex. Whatever the solution in Jozini, it won’t be arrived at by finger-pointing and shrill calls… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 26 February 2023