The story is told of a high school boy who was fluffing his Mathematics, and when his father scolded him and urged him to pull up his socks, the young man replied: Don’t worry dad. I don’t have to work so hard to get my Maths right. After all, I plan to be a weather man when I finish school. Obviously, the young man did not know that weather forecasters need some knowledge of Maths, Geography, Physics and these days, IT as well, to function in their jobs...

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In this article we will focus on the basic needs that have been identified by economists as requirements for survival of human beings. We look at how we relate to some of these basics as black people in our country. The question to answer is: do we take ourselves seriously enough as a people?...

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On a recent visit to one of Gauteng’s top shopping malls, I collided with an old friend and comrade, who I used to serve with in the AZAPO student wing, AZASCO. Very excited to see each other, after almost ten years, we exchanged greetings and I found myself confessing ”eish! m’fethu ucishe wang’baizisa”. And by this, I actually meant he had gained so much weight I almost didn’t recognise him. And unwittingly, he reacted “it’s the good life chief, the good life”. I then decided to enquire what he meant by the ”good life”, he proudly told me: ”Chief, you are still asking! Didn’t they tell you! Hey, uyadlala wena!...

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It might be gratifying for some of our compatriots to see politicians – from councillors, members of parliament right up to the Presidency – running around, popping up in schools across the length and breadth of our country, mostly unannounced, ostensibly to ensure that schools open on time and start teaching on the first day. With the media in tow, cameras clicking, we subject ourselves to this hype every year...

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Reconciliation. This is the word we heard more and more in the run-up to 1994 general elections and even more after those elections. These calls were being made even as Almond Nofomela, notorious Vlakplaas askari, was making startling allegations about the activities of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, most notable of which was the unleashing of Aids infected agents from Vlakplaas onto the shebeens of nearby Mamelodi...

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