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The president, the city, the times get the G20 they deserve
This week the diagnoses will fly even thicker and faster as a dizzying variety of petitioners, power brokers and gentrified pimps all try to sell us their story, writes Eaton
China not a threat to ANC’s job of tarnishing SA’s image
Reports that China will allegedly send technicians to SA to secretly refurbish the De Brug military base have caused some alarm, but over the weekend the Gauteng provincial government provided some valuable perspective.
Amazon’s three-book-a-day diet and the slow death of the internet
Two years ago, as the artificial humanity of the tech bros led them inexorably towards developing the blight we now call AI, Amazon realised that it needed to do something drastic to slow the tide of AI-generated slop that was being passed off as literatu
New party or kinky same old, same old?
It feels a tad perverse to focus on the merger of micro-parties Rise Mzansi, Bosa and nano-party GOOD
Why the ANC is betting big and putting it all on red
You don’t tell your most lucrative source of income to go to hell until you’ve got an alternative income stream lined up.
TOM EATON | The right stuff? The ANC has killed SA’s appetite for democracy
Many of us have reached a point where some nasty forms of government look better than misrule by arrogant criminals
After watching this space for so long, SA will take any shiny thing
The wrangle and fawning over Ramaphosa’s optimistic words feels like some kind of Stockholm Syndrome
TOM EATON | In domestic bliss and bath-time coups it’s all good, bad and achievable
Here’s an educated guess on the contents of Sona, which will all be forgotten by Friday. I thank you
If it walks like a decuplet and quacks like a decuplet it’s not a smoking gun
It’s just another ‘thumbsuck from Iqbal Surve’s lie factory’, but fake-news-be-damned AfriForum doesn’t mind
And just like that Boris says he may smoke Bain, but not today
The UK prime minister says he will look into the firm, the SA arm of which ‘helped capture Sars’. When is another story




















