William Saunderson-Meyer

Columnist at The Citizen (South Africa)

Journalist William Saunderson-Meyer writes the syndicated weekly column, Jaundiced Eye. https://t.co/00rsyKBi8x; https://t.co/u1JEHOfZ6g

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Articles

Premature to claim White House encounter as a South African slam dunk

5 days ago | citizen.co.za | William Saunderson-Meyer

The local consensus is that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House was a great triumph. Overwhelming though that consensus is, it’s mistaken. The pre-trip narrative was that, firstly, the SA team would put President Donald Trump right about the “fake news” that led him to grant refugee status to Afrikaners, caused him to mistake land redress for property confiscation and led him to confuse economic transformation with racial discrimination.
Premature to claim White House encounter as a South African slam dunk

5 days ago | flipboard.com | William Saunderson-Meyer

The local consensus is that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House was a great triumph. Overwhelming though that consensus is, it’s …
Why Cyril Ramaphosa failed in the US

1 week ago | citizen.co.za | William Saunderson-Meyer

There was a moment when Cyril Ramaphosa might have conjured a victory. All it would have taken was a smidgeon of humanity and a teaspoonful of courage. Sadly, even so low a bar was too much for a president who invariably fails to rise to the occasion. The opportunity occurred during what the media melodramatically describes as Donald Trump’s “ambush” of the SA team. By definition, ambushes are unexpected. But you’d have to be remarkably complacent not to have anticipated this particular ambush.
Why Cyril Ramaphosa failed in the US

1 week ago | flipboard.com | William Saunderson-Meyer

Why Cyril Ramaphosa failed in the USThere was a moment when Cyril Ramaphosa might have conjured a victory. All it would have taken was a smidgeon of humanity and a teaspoonful of …
Second chance for Amerikaner 'refugees'

2 weeks ago | citizen.co.za | William Saunderson-Meyer

The granting of refugee status to a small group of white Afrikaners by the US – an offer that has been extended to include members of other racial minorities who can credibly demonstrate that they are being discriminated against – will have profoundly negative implications for SA. It puts the ANC-led government in a quandary about a slew of controversial legislation regarding hot-button issues such as race quotas, black economic empowerment, property and language rights and hate speech.
Second chance for Amerikaner ‘refugees’

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | William Saunderson-Meyer

8 hours agoFarmer or IT technician? Afrikaner 'refugee' questioned over titleLocal businessman Errol Langton has clapped at critics who questioned his decision to go to the US as an “Afrikaner refugee”.
Days of GNU numbered

3 weeks ago | citizen.co.za | William Saunderson-Meyer

Next month is the first anniversary of the government of national unity (GNU). But it may be wise to pause before splashing out on celebratory Dom Pérignon. Given the fractiousness between the two major partners – the ANC and the DA – it’s not a given that the GNU in its present form will survive to 14 June. After all, this was never a Shakespearean marriage of true minds, but rather a forced union between warring houses.
Days of GNU numbered

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | William Saunderson-Meyer

Next month is the first anniversary of the government of national unity (GNU). But it may be wise to pause before splashing out on celebratory Dom …
Iran haunts MTN and SA

1 month ago | citizen.co.za | William Saunderson-Meyer

The MTN Group has a gigantic Iranian problem. This means South Africa has a gigantic political problem. The incestuously intertwined worlds of big business, party financial interests and facilitating state actors may come under uncomfortable and damaging scrutiny from two court actions that have left MTN scrambling.
Iran haunts MTN and SA

1 month ago | flipboard.com | William Saunderson-Meyer

1 day agoHouthi drones drain billions from West as Red Sea chaos escalates, experts sayLeading defense analysts say that the Houthis' latest attacks are Tehran showing what it is truly capable of. When a $20,000 missile fired by Yemen’s …16 hours agoReports of blasts and fires in Iranian cities Mashhad and QomThere are preliminary reports and videos circulating on social media of purported explosions and fires in the Iranian cities of Mashhad and Qom. Some …5 hours agoAgent Waltz?