Our most famous athletes are far from perfect, yet transcend the labels thrown at them to represent something more meaningful, says Verashni Pillay.
We’ve failed South Africa’s women, and the bluster of Women’s Month won’t change that, writes a disgusted Verashni Pillay.
Are our politicians finally learning how to disagree like adults? Verashni Pillay desperately hopes so, despite the ANC’s troubling politics.
Verashni Pillay reflects on quota systems, interrogating the dearth of white people in SA’s civil service – and whether we need them there at all.
Would any true communist take the ANC acolytes known as the SACP seriously? Verashni Pillay wonders what it will take for the party to see red.
Apparently one can only get pregnant if you have a boyfriend. And that’s just one of many things wrong with Miss SA, writes Verashni Pillay.
SA’s burgeoning online radio industry has taken a hard knock amid the storm over listenership figures. But bad attitudes have only made things worse.
A local publisher hopes to reach a broader audience by getting celebrities to write books aimed at the youth market.
Showing a little more emotion would not hurt the Democratic Alliance, writes Verashni Pillay after an interview with the party’s leader.
Verashni Pillay takes issue with large sectors of evangelical Christianity that have historically supported Israel’s right to expand.