Paul Whelan

The difficulty with the media’s sustained campaign against President Zuma is it suggests that if we can somehow get rid of the man all wil...

The Economic Freedom Fighters fiercest fight, the party insists, is going to be to keep their red overalls on in the national assembly. ...

In an article in Politicsweb, RW Johnson suggests 'regime change' is in the air in South Africa, but ends by warning that Presid...

  If we've come to think of President Zuma as a 'tyrant' breaking the law and undermining the constitution, we need to see th...

People forget that the German Nazi Party were also 'socialist': they were national socialist. As such, they claimed to speak for ...

  Letter to Business Day March 24 2014   Sir -    Your leader, 'Nkandla reports just not the same' (March 20), shows adm...

With the DA-Agang 'game-changer' gone if not forgotten, a key remaining interest in the elections is how far the ‘millions’ of vot...

Mathew Blatchford's views on fascism in his letter to today's Sunday Times are no less open to argument than those of Imraan Bucc...

Even those who are not loyal supporters of South Africa ’s ruling party sometimes argue that the press in SA should be regulated or contro...

    Chester Missing, who needs no introduction from me, tweeted at the time: "Give your boyfriend millions and you get a slap and...

The Treasurer General of Zimbabwe ’s Movement for Democratic Change, Roy Bennett, asked on Politicsweb on March 25: Why is the ANC still ...

  Mangaung approaches fast. Let's take a realistic, not prophetic look at it, leaving out the wailing and gnashing of teeth. They on...

It is maddening, among SA’s many other serious problems, that President Zuma is able to shrug off the vast expense of his Nkandla homestea...

Although we must welcome South Africa's newspapers vigorously taking political sides at last - it is an essential part of building a ...

  [Thoughts to a friend who has just seen the RSC's all-African Julius Caesar]   I am no expert on Shakespeare, but I know him re...

  Here are a few political thoughts. They are only thoughts: not necessarily personal opinions and definitely not a plug for any side i...

As people get older they start to look back and talk about the past, as you must have noticed. They contact former school mates, old f...

Stop reading now if it seems like this article is going to attack the leadership of the EFF personally or go on about how Marxism killed ...

If you think about it, we do not all have ‘freedom of speech’ in the careless way we like to say we do. The numerous international conv...

It is impossible to glance at the headlines, let alone open a newspaper or turn on the radio or TV news these days, without meeting some f...

On May 4 1954 I heard the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde and the Liebestod for the first time. Words remain as helpless as they always w...

You cannot fail to have noticed how the media keep going on about leaders or the lack of them. South Africa , editors and commentators con...