Paul Whelan

When some idea or other becomes a buzzword, especially if it sounds impressive or alarming, it is time to stay calm, take a deep breath, a...

Radicals - reformers, activists, extremists, call them what you will - are part and not part of every society. Readers do not need example...

  South Africa does not need another commission of enquiry. It does not need an appeal to the Constitutional Court. It does not need a ...

Professional writers, assisted and managed by experienced subs and editors, produced the traditional media. But times have changed. You an...

The problem in SA is not that the ANC or President Zuma is uniquely corrupt, but that one party is unchallenged in power and has been for...

Heaven forbid people are stopped from blaming the government, the resort of authoritarian regimes. And heaven knows twenty years of ANC go...

RW Johnson in his new book and a follow-up series of articles on Politicsweb has as his theme How long will South Africa survive? The Loom...

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...