Do you ever get so paranoid you think the car in front of you is trying to follow you?

Gun owners surely have to be the most responsible people in the world

<b>Contributions from guest writers</b>

That a commission has been appointed to investigate the fall of the rand against other currencies almost defies belief

I have never been sure whether it is the first or the last refuge of a scoundrel but, in my experience, patriotism and its tunes attract scoundrels much as the sound of a flushing toilet draws a sewer rat from his hideaway

Dumisani Makhaye need not worry. He is unlikely ever to be accused of moderation, proportion or good sense

Like everyone who was once a child, I am no stranger to the business of closing my eyes or hiding under my blankets in the hope that, when I next look, a problem will have gone away

Do my eyes and ears deceive me? Or is it indeed so? South African communists have been conducting a campaign over the past month to force local banks to give ordinary folk access to, yes, <i>capital</i> – to banking services, particularly loans and the like?

"We used to think the police were brutal but competent. Now we know they were brutal because they are incompetent."

Because hope springs eternal in human affairs, societies prefer not to wallow in their past failures or those of their governments

Relations between rulers and intellectuals are often characterised by uneasiness, mistrust and, at times, outright antagonism