One challenge was what and who to write about and which people to include or leave on the cutting-room floor.

Ntshavheni’s combination of stages one and two of grief plunged most thinking folk into stage four — depression, writes Tony Leon

The wider world of politics and elections offers some useful pointers for the potholed road to 2024 in South Africa, writes Tony Leon.

Courtesy of 'retcon' and the delete key, the hard truths and inconvenient facts will be cherry-picked to absurd lengths or explained as 'unfortunate glitches', writes Tony Leon.

As a Brics scene-stealer, it was hard to beat the offstage and out-of-the-sky antics of Pretoria’s absent friend, Vladimir Putin, writes Tony Leon

Last month, at a Brics youth summit in Durban, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the ring-mistress of RET resentments, went global in her full-frontal assault on the West, the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, ‘’five South African banks” and “dominant Eurocentric narratives of the world”, writes Tony Leon

That taxpayers are heading for the hills in droves begs the question: how serious is the president about his reform and investment agenda, asks Tony Leon.

There are suggestions Julius Malema will likely enter the Union Buildings in a governing capacity of some sort next year, writes Tony Leon

“Senescence” is defined as the condition or process of deteriorating with age.  This week’s video announcement by President Joe Biden that he will seek re-election as US president next year sent the commentary class into overdrive on the risks of senility or physical impairment afflicting Biden, who would be 82 at his inauguration.

Three recent events compel attention and suggest the narrow path South Africa treads between possible salvation and collapse. We don’t have the luxury to follow advice from Yogi Berra, the famed US baseball catcher, who said: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”