Commentary

Last week, I focused my discussion of the American elections on the Electoral College (EC). It became a key focus of electoral reform in the week after Donald Trump won the presidency while losing the popular vote. It's the fifth time this has...

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Donald Trump won the Electoral College. Too many people voted for a man who will win at any cost, lay waste his opponents by denigrating, maligning and trying to embarrass them. Misogynistic, chauvinistic,...

The planet is still slightly disoriented after the massive shift in the polls that took place last week. Many persons emerged from the twilight to be greeted by a world that seemed slightly askew, and with newspaper headlines screaming what had...

White women sold Hillary Clinton down the river. Fifty-three per cent of white female voters chose Trump. In America, race matters far more than gender or class. Of course, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are white and wealthy. But Trump is...

A funny-looking, foul-mouthed, reality-TV star, multibillionaire New York liberal democrat has single-handedly upended the political system in the United States. He is an 800-pound alpha-male gorilla who announced at the outset that he would win,...

It's too late to do anything serious about it, for serious discourse will be a casualty in the unedifying din that will pass as the campaign for the November 28 local government elections.However, it must be an urgent feature of their post-election...

The topic of what is loosely called the ISSA 45 per cent rule continues to resonate with the public. The rule states that for a student to take part in any ISSA-run sports competition, he or she must have attained a grade of 45 per cent or more in...

His major was economics; his grades were strictly Cs. "Most of my high-school and college career, a C average was eligibility for sports, and I figured that that was the standard to shoot at and remain eligible," he reasoned.Who was this man? He was...