Tom Eaton is one of SA's most prominent newspaper columnists, also known for his cricket writing. He has also written screenplays and several books, including The De Villiers Code (2005) and Is It Me or Is It Getting Hot in Here?: Great Expectations and Boiling Frogs in South Africa (2020).
Waste and corruption numbers boggle the mind
OpinionImagine a small suitcase, the generic sort of lump you might trundle behind you through an airport or throw into the ...
US fleet will not be reinstating apartheid at gunpoint
OpinionTrump’s far too busy shaking down Ukraine for half its mineral wealth and planning hotels and casinos for Gaza
Line crossed as consensus sent packing in maths glitch
OpinionThe DA understands that getting below 50% means you haven’t won the election; the ANC doesn’t
Saturated with the sleaze of current politics
OpinionNewspapers are crammed with political charlatans, egoists and cutthroats pulling and pushing voters
A cautious look at a future that ain’t what it used to be
OpinionIn the spirit of Yogi Berra, if you see a fork in the road ahead, take it
DA has lost its voice as it quietly beavers away in GNU
OpinionAs the familiar apparatchiks bang their toy drums, one traditionally raucous corner seems to have fallen oddly silent
It’s true folks, Zuma doubted democracy for decades
OpinionNit-picking institutions keep getting in the way of robust majoritarianism and voters keeping thinking for themselves
Dada’s oopsie shows ANC can indeed spring into action
OpinionFor Joburg mayor to suggest police hire foreign nationals ... that was quite something
The devil is always in the details — Eskom generation capacity
OpinionThree months ago the headline was adamant: André De Ruyter was saying Eskom “can’t be fixed”. Today, Eskom says it is ...
Bumpy roads for supercars and VAT fights
OpinionANC eyes EFF support while a Nigerian rapper blames a beggar for his accident