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Tom Eaton is one of SA's most prominent newspaper columnists, also known for his cricket writing. He has also written screenplays and several books, including The De Villiers Code (2005) and Is It Me or Is It Getting Hot in Here?: Great Expectations and Boiling Frogs in South Africa (2020).
Humanity’s greatest environmental blind spot may not be forgetting how much has been lost, but convincing itself that a rapidly changing planet is simply business as usual, says the writer
Murmurs of Patrice Motsepe becoming the next leader of the ANC, and possibly SA’s president, are a useful reminder that I too can switch lanes, writes Tom Eaton
The dogs of war are wilding out, but not everyone is afraid, writes Tom Eaton
SA should try not to get Cyril Ramaphosa kidnapped and flown blindfolded to New York
What makes conservative men look weakest of all isn’t what they’re proclaiming but what they’re demanding, writes Eaton
Why is the official opposition in our constitutional democracy, led by a man in whose name the 2021 insurrection was organised, sending party loyalists to an anti-democratic autocracy to be trained to kill people, asks Tom Eaton
Thabo Mbeki's new assertion is that SA presidents should be elected by popular vote rather than by political parties.
A damaging fiction gains traction as anger and opportunism eclipse basic moral honesty.
RW Johnson’s evisceration of DA leader John Steenhuisen at the weekend, given a full page in the Sunday Times, has presented the party’s most loyal followers with a terrible choice.
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
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.
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…
It feels a tad perverse to focus on the merger of micro-parties Rise Mzansi, Bosa and nano-party GOOD
You don’t tell your most lucrative source of income to go to hell until you’ve got an alternative income stream lined up.
Many of us have reached a point where some nasty forms of government look better than misrule by arrogant criminals
