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).
Praise be that the Bushiris fled
OpinionIn a country where miscreants are sure they can dodge the law, it’s a welcome novelty for someone to be scared of it
Joe Stalin and Lenin meet Donald Trump for coffee
OpinionRepublicans had to be told that wanting and believing a thing to be true isn’t the same as it being true
The skid marks will remain even if Trump loses
OpinionThough it seems unbelievable, and against the odds, there is a possibility of Trump winning the US presidential ...
The words we don’t say and the deaths we don’t count
OpinionI suspect that, at some point in the next month or two, we’re reluctantly going to start using those unsayable words
Villainy, lack of vision hallmarks of ANC scandals
OpinionThere are no honours in the party’s impressive villainy combined with its profoundly limited criminal vision
Disdain for authority: Dainfern’s power arrears is even more shocking than its decor
OpinionIt isn’t the theft of electricity itself or the number of freeloaders that confuse me. It is the sums involved
Hope disappears in a puff of demon-summoning chalk dust
OpinionWhat lessons can be learnt when our education is left to the internet and QAnon fantasists?
Paying taxis might get more people to pay their taxes
OpinionUsually Mbaks is used to announcing the road death toll, but this time he brought subsidies to SA’s own private ...
Transparent and cynical, but EFF owns the moment
OpinionThere is no large, respected organisation that can deal out not only justice but also sense and enlightenment
‘The Crown’ anchored in truth?
OpinionThe latest season of the historical television drama series has attracted a more diverse audience and questions about ...