Tom Eaton

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Tom Eaton

Queuing in Crocs for a private plane doesn’t have quite the same ring as walking barefoot over the Drakensberg, but still, as 49 self-identified Afrikaners who also self-identify as persecuted head into self-imposed exiled in the US (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2025-05-12-first-white-sa-refugees-board-plane-for-us/), national myths still echo around OR Tambo International Airport.

3 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Tom Eaton

TOM EATON | Lies have short legs, but luckily for 49 Afrikaner ‘refugees’, safety is a plane ride away Whatever their motives for leaving, it’s not a great look 13 May 2025 - 04:30 Queuing in Crocs for a private plane doesn’t have quite the same ring as walking barefoot over the Drakensberg, but still, as 49 self-identified Afrikaners who also self-identify as persecuted head into self-imposed exiled in the United States, national myths still echo around OR Tambo International Airport...

3 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Tom Eaton

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. EYE ON THE PRIZE EFF leader Julius Malema. File image You have to hand it to Julius Malema, and I don’t mean that in the nationalisation-and-confiscation sense. No, I mean that, despite the slow collapse of his party, he’s still the living embodiment of the old populist saying that when life gives you lemons, make persecution lemonade.

4 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Tom Eaton

It can be difficult to empathise with the human caramel Swiss rolls who loll in the corridors of power in this country, but try to spare a thought for Fikile Mbalula and the dry-mouthed, sweaty-palmed terror he must have felt on Friday as more than 100 ANC MPs confronted him. After all, it takes a great deal for ANC MPs to get angry. They didn’t get angry about helping steal elections in Zimbabwe, or garlic and beetroot, or Nkandla, or state capture, or Eskom, or Life Esidimeni, or Phala Phala.

1 month ago | timeslive.co.za | Tom Eaton

TOM EATON | Rank (odour) politics: let’s hit the brakes on calling it the taxi ‘industry’ Responses to Carletonville United Taxi Association’s crackdown reveal two clichés we repeat without question 02 May 2025 - 04:30 The news that the Carletonville United Taxi Association in Gauteng will start fining drivers for poor hygiene or the condition of their taxis has once again revealed South Africa’s peculiar relationship with our paradoxically — and toxically — private public transport...