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3 weeks ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
THE GHOST TRAIN Take an overdose of Trump, add some tariffs, bring to a boil, and voila — a hot mess in consumer stocks
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3 weeks ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
At the rundown government school in a dorp in the Free State where I occasionally try to impart the endless trickery of the English language to a grade 7 class, one of my favourite exercises is asking the pupils what they want to be when they leave school. The most chosen occupation is often security guard, presumably because of the uniform and aura of authority that comes with the job. For a poor, black kid this is the summit of achievement.
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3 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
At the rundown government school in a dorp in the Free State where I occasionally try to impart the endless trickery of the English language to a grade 7 class, one of my favourite exercises is asking the pupils what they want to be when they leave school. The most chosen occupation is often security guard, presumably because of the uniform and aura of authority that comes with the job. For a poor, black kid this is the summit of achievement...
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1 month ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
NONE THE WISER A libertarian friend recently got grumpy with me, on ideological grounds, for wearing a Ernesto “Che” Guevara peak cap with a red star in front. It’s just a souvenir I bought from a stall on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 10 years ago. The very font of liberty. It’s also my only peak cap, but I wouldn’t admit that for fear it would muffle my fashion statement.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
Ten lessons from the second coming of Trump Populism is now entrenched, as is anti-science ignorance in the world’s most powerful country 10 November 2024 - 00:00 Here are 10 takeaways from Donald Trump’s barnstorming election victory this week...
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
When Springbok captain Siya Kolisi brought the Rugby World Cup to the Union Buildings after a glorious, nation-boosting final in October last year, he had a message for President Cyril Ramaphosa. As the first African captain of a Springbok rugby team, his leadership of the manne for a second successive world cup, out of four in total for the country, spoke of a transformation in South African rugby that had somehow occurred without the heavy hand of government interference.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
Voices in the discordant discourse Patrick Bulger sits down with sociologist David Hirsh to interrogate the validity of Hirsh’s claim that anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism 22 September 2024 - 00:00 In a week in which the conflict in the Middle East plumbed new depths of brutality with Israel’s “pager’’ attack in Lebanon, South Africa’s Jewish community found itself under siege for its unconditional support of Israel in the bloody conflict...
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
London calling: brother, you can go it alone! Until there is political will to provide quality healthcare people are entitled to under the constitution, patients will continue to wallow in filth and neglect 15 September 2024 - 00:00 It’s nauseating to have Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi beating a contrite trail to the private bedside of South Africa’s most famous hospital patient, broadcaster Tom London. ..
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
Xi's great foreign policy coup: fawning African leaders While Ramaphosa’s jovial attitude may well spell good news for SA in terms of Chinese investment, one can't help but wonder at this new age of credulity 08 September 2024 - 00:00 Tshwane’s DA mayor at the time, Solly Msimanga, might have thought he was doing a good thing by visiting Taiwan in late 2016, in an effort to drum up investor support for South Africa’s capital.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Patrick Bulger
01 September 2024 - 00:00 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. German army officer Viktor Lutze (1890-1943) accompanies German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) on a review of the army in Berlin, to commemorate the third anniversary of Hitler's regime, January 31 1936.
