COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that the young people who are either newly qualified to vote should not become like folks who regard election day as a fun day. He urges ...
‘It is a cruel vote, a crucial vote, a vote that will either effect change (but not just for the sake of change), but a collective voice saying: 30 years of messing ...
COLUMN: I find myself doing little personalised inventories on and of myself. It is in my conscience every day, but sometimes – and these days it’s “more of than ...
COLUMN: I am not launching a personalised attack, as I am only a columnist. I look at my own experiences, try to make them resonate with my readers and then we move ...
COLUMN: There have been those who sneered and asked: “What makes you think you are a columnist?” My answer has been that I was lucky to have been involved in language ...
COLUMN: Two deaths during this period left me disconnected and confused. I could not function creatively, nor could I understand or explain my surreal disconnection ...
COLUMN: My column is driven by my direct involvement with my youngest grandson, Zachary, who is now in matric. I am conflicted, because I do not want him to see ...
COLUMN: We can become proactive in living in a way that assumes that each day is your last, each breath your final gasp
COLUMN: We must bear in mind that in the international family, our country resorts among the bottom feeders, the failures, the junk status in the world of economics ...
COLUMN: Finally, it can be illustrated by the incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, for example, being knocked down on the street ...
As the opening gambit for my first column for 2024, I wish to thank the Almighty Giver of Life and Love for mercies to all, past and present. May the coming year ...
COLUMN: I read a report of a woman who was on her way home with her young daughter along Voortrekker Road in Maitland. That was at three in the morning. Somehow, ...
COLUMN: The folly of the projected National health pie-inthe-sky drivel currently being touted by our favourite cousins, the ANC. As noble as it appears, it is fiscal ...
OPINION: My essay is triggered by the alarming metamorphosis that is evident at the centre of Bellville. This area used to house supermarkets and insurance brokerages, ...
COLUMN: I shall deal with some truths that I have circumvented since the advent of this column because I am not the conscience of a society, nor a trained researcher ...
COLUMN: I have no illusions that I speak for anybody or that I have found the magic cure for our national ills. I try to spice up my efforts weekly (weakly) with ...
COLUMN: A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a government entity established by an act of legislation to earn profit for the government so that they can provide products ...
COLUMN: Alex Tabisher writes that all the miserable purveyors of inefficiency and lack of expertise are walking about freely, waiting patiently to be voted back ...
COLUMN: In this week’s column Alex Tabisher questions the English syllabus that learners are taught and encourages Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekgato consult ...
"One could hardly call the news shocking, or electrifying. For, in order to do that, one would need current. And current is precisely what we ain't got. "
"The truth about learner cruelty against teachers at schools is disturbing, reprehensible and thoroughly unacceptable. "
Does it make a difference to clothe a child from the harsh misery of an informal settlement and bus him to a model C school, then send him back home?
If by ?coloured? we mean neither black nor white, the context is South African. The term was invented to accommodate political and bureaucratic needs.
"No one is born racist. Children do not see a difference. It must be pointed out to them. This is the power of the first epistemic encounter. "
Cape Argus subscriber Alex Tabisher, tackles how parents, teachers, learners should play visible roles in this week's "Literally Yours" column.