Succession is a messy business, with skeletons always popping out, as in the case of former France presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Although fawning, Frank Chikane’s book has shed light on the ANC’s abuse of spy agencies and also goes into the thinking and psyche of Thabo Mbeki.
The ANC’s policy documents on gender equality make for cautiously optimistic reading.
Bobby Brown cannot be blamed for the singer’s death, but he contributed greatly to her downfall.
With glaring gaps in leadership skills and ability, why outsource our most able politician?
The DA leader’s labelling of musician Simphiwe Dana as a ‘professional black’ smacks of racial insensitivity and cheap political point-scoring.
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/ 15 December 2011
In exactly a week from now I, like many South Africans, will decamp to the coast to become a beach bum, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
In a month-long foray into the social networking site Twitter, I commented on an article posted by struggle stalwart and activist Jay Naidoo.
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/ 18 November 2011
Whatever will the Italians talk about now, now that their randy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has finally left the building?
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/ 4 November 2011
<b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b> writes a letter to Danica May Camacho, the world’s seven-billionth person.
<b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b> has been trying desperately to avoid the subject of Nonhle Thema.
With relations between the taxi industry and government seemingly improving, the industry has now launched, with great aplomb, its first airline.
I will wake up this Friday morning to pay tribute to one of the greatest Africans the continent has ever produced, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
A group of media colleagues and <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b> got more than we bargained for on a recent trip to Swaziland.
Once the song and dance of Women’s Month is over, what is left?
<b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b> wonders whether she was the only one whose sense of sisterhood took a battering while observing Charlene Wittstock’s wedding.
<b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b> hadn’t been to Maycomb County, Alabama in years, but it is a place she likes to revisit when in search of inspiration.
We all revere Nelson Mandela. I would even suggest that many of the young leaders in the country aspire to be like him, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in the doo-doo. For someone of his ilk to spend a few days at New York’s Rikers Island jail, must have been torture.
What disparate times we live in. Two Fridays ago we were all glued to our television screens as Prince William and Kate said "I will".
I have a wrinkle. I’ve come to terms with it. I made the unhappy discovery two weeks shy of my 31st birthday, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
Words and songs have long inspired us. "If music be the food of love, play on," said William Shakespeare, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
The spectacular decline of crime in New York in the late Nineties has been attributed to many things.
I’ve always secretly suspected that Bheki Cele’s motivation for militarising the police was an excuse for him to get another hat.
Mass concern about Nelson Mandela’s illness is both understandable and perfectly African.
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/ 24 January 2011
Most women want to marry men who are richer and more successful than they are writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
‘Tis the season to get together with family
and friends, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
Apartheid may be dead and buried, but cultural faux pas are alive and unleashed in the suburbs.
"Does the devil live in the Democratic Republic of Congo? It would appear so," writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>
Often married men are alarmingly brazen when it comes to chatting up single women. Eliminate this quandary by simply asking the question point blank.
It was with trepidation that I attended the gala dinner to mark the beginning of the ANC’s week-long jamboree, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.
Angelina Jolie is the only home wrecker who has managed to win the admiration of women around the world.