Azad Essa

So much has been written about the US pulling out of the Paris climate accord last week. For most of us, the move was just another circus act by the world’s clown; another moment of lunacy to mock and jeer. And then to move on.

Demonstrations are continuing across the Middle East, interrupted only by the call for prayer when protesters fall to their knees on cheap carpets and straw mats and the riot police take a tea break.

Press Release: Zuma’s Bastard is here…

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A number of activists, writers, politicians, morons and other opportunists will be writing long-drawn tributes to Fatima Meer in the coming weeks.

As racial tensions continue to rise over the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, and renewed concerns about the ability of black people to host thousands of visiting white people for the World Cup

Zimbabwean journalists, now illegal workers living in Jozi’s mines, have discovered a secret dossier that showcases one Julius Malema suffering from clinical depression.

I don’t like press conferences.

Organised to propagate nothing more than a particular message, they are spaces where real questions are rarely asked because there is no place for real answers.

I know nothing about pubs and bars, except of course what Hollywood has taught me.

My blog had been shortlisted for the SA Blog awards 2009 in the 'politics' category and it recently featured on the Pambazuka newsletter.

When the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliate the