Rabbie Serumula

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

Do we really need yet another liberation-fetishist outfitRabbie Serumula|Published 14 minutes ago 2minAnd so we must ask: how many parties must South Africa birth before she can heal? Rabbie Serumula, author, award-winning poet, journalist. Picture: Nokuthula MbathaImage: File PictureFloyd Shivambu offered “the truth” behind his axing from the MK Party: a fabricated intelligence report accused him of plotting against Jacob Zuma.

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

The price tag feels like a slap in the faceRabbie Serumula|Published 11 minutes ago 2minLet’s be clear, the idea of a National Dialogue is commendable. In fact, it’s necessary. We do need to talk. About the land, the state of our democracy. About corruption, inequality, crime, the growing divide between those who govern and those who survive. A country as fractured as ours cannot afford silence. Rabbie Serumula, author, award-winning poet, journalist.

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

Watching billionaires bicker while the bandwidth dries upRabbie Serumula|Published 9 minutes ago 2minThe bromance is over. One of the 21st century’s strangest political-tech pairings, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, has publicly imploded in spectacular fashion. The fallout, as expected, is petty, vindictive, and dangerously consequential. It’s a diplomatic mess, a business blunder, and a cautionary tale, all unfolding like bad reality TV, full of veiled threats and open declarations of war.

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

There’s a name for what’s happeningRabbie Serumula|Updated 13 minutes ago 2minTransformation was always supposed to take time, unless your name is Elon Musk. Then the rules bend, the red tape vanishes, and the skies open up for business. A space cowboy from Pretoria beams Starlink over our heads, no licence, no problem. No 30% black ownership. We built policy to correct the past, but it seems all it takes is a billionaire with a broadband signal to bulldoze the future.

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

SA had been flattened into a single chantRabbie Serumula|Published 27 minutes ago 2minThere’s something deeply unsettling about hearing your country’s name mispronounced by power. Especially when the syllables arrive dressed in accusation, wrapped in myth, and aimed like darts at old wounds. But instead of rage, South Africa’s president offered something rarer: clarity. In that calm, the nation saw itself; fragmented, yes, but also fiercely intact.