Thought Leader

My blogs for the Mail and Guardian Thought Leadeer platform

On Egypt, bread and South Africa

Posted by on Feb 3, 2011 in Bylines, Featured, Thought Leader | 0 comments

I’ve got a new post on the Mail and Guardian’s Thought Leader platform which you can read here. The article was also posted in a guest slot at the Christian Science Monitor.

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Assange’s just another Zulu on the stoop

Posted by on Dec 10, 2010 in Thought Leader | 0 comments

Amid some noises about Julian Assange, Jazob Zuma and James Bond, I’ve written my first article for Thought Leader. Julian Assange may well be a real life James Bond. His hair certainly fits the part, and his swagger is telling of a man with a penchant for the virtuously shaken and virulently stirred could ever dare. But it’s his decidedly Jacob Zuma air that is most striking. Yes, you read right. Take away the hair and the skin pigment and Julian Assange is to the rest of the world what Jacob Zuma was to South Africa five years ago. Like our good president once was, Assange’s...

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