March 17, 2021
March 7, 2023
South Africans started to receive the COVID vaccine on the 17th of February. Four weeks later, roughly 147,753 have received the shot. The daily average sits at 5910 according to Media Hack who have calculated that it should take the country 18 years, 6 months and 8 days to vaccinate 67% of the popu
March 3, 2021
There are some advantages to war, famine and to illness. Limited though they are, they generally, at the very least, force us to consider what is and what is not important. Without much need for discussion, we tend to focus on the basics. Like survival. Then on the welfare of family and those we car
February 17, 2021
I am not sure that we need Purim this year. I felt the same about the High Holidays back in 2020 when we were much younger, thinner and fitter. But not really that fit. Back then I argued that we had had months of contemplation, introspection and focus on who would live and who would die. Despite m
February 17, 2021
Whereas there might be many faces to Jacob Zuma, most of them can be condensed into two primary themes. He is either the villain, ominous and threatening and openly defiant of the law, of the NEC, and of the wishes of the country. Or he is the victim; wide eyed, picked on, and singled out and for ve
February 10, 2021
In the same way that within a short year, many of us became fluent in conversational virology, it appears as though we are now attaining a high level of knowledge on the complex nuances of immunology that until recently was known only to researchers, specialist and anti-vaxers.Most of us are able to
January 26, 2021
Winston Churchill’s radio broadcast of the 9th February 1941 was a particularly rousing affair. In part designed for a local audience, and in part an international plea for desperately needed assistance.At the time of his speech, the United States administration was in the process of approving the L
January 20, 2021
The story is told of an optimist who falls from the top of the Empire State Building. On the way down, around the 30th floor, someone leans out the window and shouts, “Hey, how is it going?” The optimist, still falling, looks at him, gives him a big thumbs up and a confident smile, and screams back,
January 13, 2021
The happenings on Capitol Hill left most sane people winded. And whereas many were quick to blame 2021 for letting us down so spectacularly and so early into the year, it clearly had little to do with the calendar and everything to do with the former president of the United States Donald Trump.Inste
January 13, 2021
January 2021 and it feels like anxiety is airborne. Say what we want about the transmissibility of the new variant of COVID, it is the disquiet and the worry that have found their way into every corner of our lives. We might be able to sanitize our hands and our groceries, but unless we find a way t
January 6, 2021
Covid be dammed, I fully intend making a bunch of new year resolutions that I have no intention of keeping. The pandemic can rob us of our health, our economic security, ability to travel and of our freedom, but it can never take away our ability to delude ourselves. That is and will always be ours.
October 7, 2020
It is hard to imagine anything more annoying than Donald Trump with antibodies. If the world was not a COVID safe place before now, the thought of Trump with immunity is almost too much to handle. And it will happen. We can be certain of that. There is little doubt that his symptoms will be mild, th
September 23, 2020
This morning I realized why the world needed COVID and why we most likely still do. The backstory is this: Early on in lockdown it became clear that my father was seriously ill and that he would have a limited time. My mother had passed away 3 years ago, and he lives alone. He was 83 when lockdown s
September 8, 2020
The photo of Julius Malema outside a Click’s store, Monday went viral for all the wrong reasons. Sporting a magnificent pair of Prada loafers, Malema joined the protest that had been called for by his party. It would unlikely have been the image that he would have chosen to represent the Eff’s image
August 26, 2020
I can guess what happened. In a moment of exasperation, President Cyril Ramaphosa drafted a short, strongly worded open letter to his colleagues in the ANC concerning the rampant and merciless corruption within the ruling party. The purpose was two-fold; to articulate his outrage with regard to the
August 19, 2020
It cannot be easy for the ANC to keep up the incredibly low standard that it has set for itself. From the failure to stamp out corruption, to the treatment of the parastatals and the economy, the party struggles to put a foot right. It should be little wonder therefore that when it comes to foreign
August 1, 2017
Every Saturday on my return from the synagogue I collect the Saturday Star from where it lies at the end of the driveway. I walk into my home scanning the headlines and checking which articles are worth reading.I am often amazed at the choice of lead-story but mostly I find it somewhat amusing more