Tag: carte blanche

“Each new instalment of the Thabo Bester story appears more shocking than the last, a sordid tale of moral depravity exposing the rot in our prisons. That a dead body appears to have been smuggled into a high security prison is now the least remarkable twist in this sorry saga is a sad but appropriate… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 16 April 2023

“Under normal circumstances, I’d search for an anecdote with a – sometimes tenuous – link to one of the stories in our Sunday line-up. But it’s Easter, and so, if you’ll permit me some poetic licence, I’ll simply raise my Mopane Worm infused tipple and wish you all a blessed break.” – John Webb, Executive… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 9 April 2023

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