Hogarth

Typically of a politician, the Gauteng premier has sought to gaslight and scapegoat thousands of anxious parents after continued failures in the province’s online school admissions system left up to 3,000 grade 1 and grade 8 pupils without placement.

In all the years he has known him, Hogarth has never taken the Nkandla Crooner for a soccer fanatic. Yes, he did play for a team or two on Robben Island, but there wasn’t much else to do there for entertainment.

The world’s longest-surviving black political party turned 114 years this week and, as usual, its leaders and followers celebrated in every way they could.

High-living tenderpreneur Aphiwe Mbangwa, who also goes by the name of “Sgwili” Radebe, saw in the new year with a massive headache, which was not only the result of booze.

As 2025 ended, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula thought it necessary to show the world that he is in tune with the trends that have made certain former US presidents very popular.

There you have it dear readers. You have made your unambiguous choice. And she is one Imogen Mashazi. You overwhelmingly voted for her as the country’s greatest clown in 2025.

Pity Mike Sandlana - born on an imaginary day, he can only eat imaginary birthday cake

The ANC, a financial delinquent of a party, held its mammoth national general council jamboree at Birchwood in Boksburg last week.

Still in high spirits after the success of the G20 summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa was the main speaker at a Youth Employment Services (YES) function on Thursday. The YES project has created 200,000 jobs.

If committee chair Soviet Lekganyane wasn’t stroking Matlala’s ego by repeatedly using his clan name, Mokone, as if he's some great elder, MKP's Vusi Shongwe was saluting him as a “grootman” — a term of respect usually reserved for older, influential men.

It was never in doubt that this one is a clown of epic proportions. But this week, Brown Mogotsi pushed the envelope beyond imagination.

With Trump being so magnanimous towards people who call him names, maybe we should send our expelled ambassador Ebrahim Rasool back to Washington.

For many years Hogarth has had reason to believe that in some ministries, and indeed in the Presidency, the chief of staff should be renamed the chief of stuff.

While the rest of the country is going purple in solidarity with the proposed nationwide shutdown over the scourge of gender-based violence and femicide, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula is making some people see red. Mbalula, who is no stranger to pu

It’s hard to believe, but the story behind the suspension of once-revered Western Cape judge president John Hlophe is that he acted without evidence against Umkhonto weSizwe Party chief whip Colleen Makhubele.