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).
It’s true folks, Zuma doubted democracy for decades
OpinionNit-picking institutions keep getting in the way of robust majoritarianism and voters keeping thinking for themselves
Dada’s oopsie shows ANC can indeed spring into action
OpinionFor Joburg mayor to suggest police hire foreign nationals ... that was quite something
The devil is always in the details — Eskom generation capacity
OpinionThree months ago the headline was adamant: André De Ruyter was saying Eskom “can’t be fixed”. Today, Eskom says it is ...
Performative victimhood aside, Zuma could sell SA festive feudalism
OpinionFormer president and his MK party are adept at mashing together contradictory positions and selling it as common sense
Something remains familiar in Ramaphosa’s startling new cabinet
OpinionSome ministers have been appointed for political pragmatism and short-circuiting criticism
SA’s Big Men have been unmasked as tiny, shrieking ones
OpinionNow that no-one can claim any mandate from the masses, all that is left is grinding, sober governance
Flawed democracy is still least ugly form of government
OpinionOn Wednesday, about half of the adults in SA voted to decide whether a party supported by a quarter of them will ...
Like Zuma or the promises of the ANC, maybe we’re just getting old
OpinionThere is a strange lack of energy surrounding the looming general election
Thabo Mbeki’s public forays a relief for Comrade Buttons
OpinionIf you’re in the ANC and you did wrong, it was the devil that made you do it
DA has lost its voice as it quietly beavers away in GNU
OpinionAs the familiar apparatchiks bang their toy drums, one traditionally raucous corner seems to have fallen oddly silent