Rabbie Serumula

2 weeks ago | iol.co.za | Rabbie Serumula

| Published 11m agoWhen the ANC and DA entered into a governing pact, seasoned observers warned it would be a high-wire act without a safety net. Less than a year in, the balancing act is already faltering. Was this ever about genuine cooperation, or just a convenient deal to hold onto power, disguised as a move in the national interest? The cracks were visible from the beginning.

3 weeks ago | iol.co.za | Rabbie Serumula

| Published 8m agoIMAGINE a bottle of South African wine priced at R100. Or a box of oranges. Or a crate of avocados. To understand the impact of the new 30% U.S. tariff, let’s follow its journey to an American store. It begins in the soil. The vines twist in the sun, the orchards bear fruit, the farms hum with workers picking, sorting, packing. Hands that feed families, that send children to school, that keep the economy moving. But their labour is only as valuable as the markets they serve.

4 weeks ago | iol.co.za | Rabbie Serumula

| Published 11m agoThere will come a time when a nation wakes up—when it stops looking outward for permission and starts looking inward for direction. A time when its leaders stop measuring sovereignty in handshakes and trade deals and start measuring it in the strength of their own convictions. A time when independence is more than an old declaration in the archives; it is a lived reality, unshaken by economic threats and diplomatic pressures. But has that time come for South Africa?

1 month ago | iol.co.za | Rabbie Serumula

| Published 17m agoTHEY say history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Cape independence? We’ve seen this movie before. It played out in 1910 when the British stitched together four colonies into a union that served the white minority while black South Africans were cast aside. It played again in 1948, when apartheid turned segregation into law, carving up the land and its people with brutal precision.

1 month ago | iol.co.za | Rabbie Serumula

Poetic Licence by Rabbie SerumulaPublished Mar 7, 2025 | Published Mar 7, 2025Patrice Motsepe’s name glows in gold, but the zama zamas dig in the dark. Their hands, cracked and calloused, carve through the belly of the earth, chasing the same promise that made billionaires out of men who never swung a pickaxe. We are told that illegal mining is the crime of the desperate - the work of faceless shadows, scurrying underground like ghosts with headlamps.