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).
The R400k bill may Shaik you a little, but at least Zuma is free as a birdie
OpinionThe former president got one in (and out) the hole – not too Schabir there, Jacob
Coupled on the tote: Trump, Zuma are thoroughbred confidence tricksters
OpinionAsking people to donate money to them shows how shameless and entitled Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump are
Anti-vaxxers and the (un) healthy distrust of authority
OpinionWhy haven’t we yet seen a large media blitz featuring vaccinated celebrities?
The problem with extremists is that they’re ... um extreme
OpinionPersuading anti-vaxxers isn’t as simple as posting a Facebook legend. Their distrust needs to be channeled subtly
Vax versus fiction: to beat anti-vaxxers, take the fight to them
OpinionIt seems the only way to get the counterfactual corps to see, er, fact, will be to unleash symbolic leadership
Zuma didn’t end loadshedding, but it could be gospel before you know it
OpinionAs SA rushes to return to normality without taking the time to retell the story of July’s upheaval, someone else will
Looting is bad, ANC preached after taking another stolen tot
OpinionThe party is trying to convince us it is a bastion of morality – as if
Is this a counterrevolution, aninsurrection or a food riot?
OpinionIt has been a week of contradictions, but in trying to make sense of things don’t be gullible and settle on one answer
Here we go again as SA faces another make-or-break moment
OpinionIn a country characterised by criminality, with a police force unable to police, this week’s events were inevitable
ANC to build a ‘smart city’ — that’s an indisputable oxymoron
OpinionInstead of highfalutin proposals like building a ‘smart city’, Cyril and Co should figure out how to build toilets