Sorry in advance. Feel free to exit stage left if you don’t want to go down this road, or just need a break from all of the negativity.
Last month, Helen Zille released ‘#StayWoke: Go Broke’, decrying cancel culture and introducing us to words like ‘Twirritant’. Not everyone’s a fan.
More than 220 000 deaths, and well over eight million confirmed cases, one of which is the American president himself. America’s COVID-19 response leaves much to be desired.
When it comes to getting nasty, there are few in the business better than the Daily Maverick’s Richard Poplak.
As we hit the seven-week mark of our national lockdown, patience is wearing thin. In the case of the Daily Maverick’s Richard Poplak, it’s worn through.
It’s been a disastrous week for South Africa’s largest opposition party, with Helen Zille at the centre of it all. Enter Zapiro and his razor-sharp wit.
Richard Poplak, the Daily Maverick’s most sharp-tongued assassin, has really gone to town on what he reckons is the slow death of South African democracy.
Whilst some are determined to believe that Cyril Ramaphosa’s New Dawn is going to save the day, not everyone is on board.
The EFF haven’t covered themselves in glory these past few weeks. After a persistent attack on the media, the scribes are now fighting back.
News broke that the Guptas were selling their media empire to buddy Mzwanele ‘Jimmy’ Manyi, and of course there are many layers to unpack here.
Over the past month or so we have seen Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma return home amidst much fanfare, but the sharp-tongued Richard Poplak is not a fan. Not at all.
The “Secure in Comfort” report by the Public Protector is over 400 pages of devastating findings, that will in most likelihood be used as loo paper by the government. The ANC refuses to see it at all. Even if the results end up being benign, as journalist Richard Poplank puts it, Zuma “will be forever remembered as a thief, a fool, and a Zulu man who was incapable of managing the affairs of his kraal.”