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).
The cabal of cabbages has the skill to steal an election — really?
OpinionIn the DA’s scenario, the ANC would have had to hollow out and discredit the IEC years ago
SA still unsure of place in new world order
OpinionFikile Mbalula fails to elaborate on meeting of minds in Russia
Ramaphosa wraps crude pitch in childhood magic
OpinionSpeechwriters conjure up Tintswalo to breathe a little life into Sona — but not for very long
Zuma’s party is dedicated to liberation — his
OpinionMeanwhile, Steenhuisen takes a punch at Lesufi and hits South Africans on the margins instead
The future is here and it’s going to be strange
OpinionWhen China hastily scrubbed a news story off its internet last week, it might as well have fired a flare into the night ...
ANC’s 112th birthday bash went well, by ANC standards
OpinionDon't worry Mbombela, after Ramaphosa’s golf day the couch on the course will pay for it
Benighted land ruled by lovers of fast food and slow thought
OpinionFor a country that races from one crisis to the next with the speed and eagerness of a highly athletic idiot running ...
Hold my drink, I’m about to shed a load of tears
OpinionAs you stand in a corner wishing your boss doesn’t talk to you, count yourself lucky your boss isn’t Comrade Cyril
Middle-aged millionaires ain’t cutting it for SA’s missing millennials
OpinionIt’s hard for our youth to get excited over voting even when the future has been in decline for 30 years
Thabo Mbeki’s public forays a relief for Comrade Buttons
OpinionIf you’re in the ANC and you did wrong, it was the devil that made you do it