google - Illustration © Francois Smit

Is Big Brother watching you?
Yes, but these days he’s called Google – and the company is storing too much information for comfort

Sisterhood? Forget it - Illustration © Francois Smit

Sisterhood? Forget it. Catfights over handbags and tears in the toilets. When this producer launched a women-only
TV company, she thought she’d kissed conflict goodbye. Samantha Brick reports

Targeting crime at the root - Illustration © Francois Smit

Without robbery and its spiralling effects, South Africa’s alarming crime rate would be measurably lower, writes Todd R Clear

A party for the born-frees - Illustration © Francois Smit

Today’s young people have no attachment to history - or Malema, writes Jovial Rantao
 
The political landscape in South Africa is changing – and it is doing so fast. Like a rolling stone gathering lots of moss.
A new political party is to be launched on December 16. The party will, in all likelihood, be led by Mbhazima Shilowa, the former premier of Gauteng and ex-national executive committee member of the ANC.
Next to Shilowa in the leadership of this yet unnamed political baby will be Mosiuoa Lekota, the former defence minister and national chairperson of the ANC.
Lekota is still a member of the ANC and faces disciplinary action for speaking out in public about what made him unhappy as an ANC member. He will most probably get fired...