Yesterday's News...

Nothing for mahala
Bid to buy State support
MTN laments extortion
Sasol’s profit jumps
Cloudy skies over Velvet’s Aurora ties
Board will ponder failure
Gentlemen unionists
Win a house of cards.

Bigotry for dummies
Under the skin of whiteness
Pale males unfairly slated
Decisions of the past still hold us hostage
Carnage ahead
Road rage assault
Demands fall on deaf ears
Bus driver shot.

Cyclone Zuma’s
Lawyer and the mega tender
Vavi takes his toll on the ANC
Fractures on the march
Nzimande bunks again
I’m innocent
I’m ready for scrutiny
Has democracy failed?

Trapped in a soured relationship
Laundering wildlife
Puzzle of Putin’s tears
Theatre of frustration draws the crowds
Miners’ bodies abandoned
Bodies rained from the sky
Israeli Air Force pounds Gaza
Forty-seven bodies found in Homs.

Excuse us for not celebrating
Boerestaat to Blikkiesdorp
Africa is a gift I was given
Schoolboy wins big road tender
Radiation machine fails
Back to the dark ages
Some light relief
Vanity their meal ticket.

Fear and hope
Citizen distrust
Under fire for lack of scrutiny
The ANC’s evil twin
Deportee torture claims
Buthelezi must back off
Business as usual for hate camps
A dose of reality.

Crackdown
When you reach the top
Keep head at home
US soldier opens fire
Strikes kill twenty-five
Afghans skeptical
Police arrest four
Usual suspects.

SUCH SUCCESS

Jagged spiked walls
Electric fences
Barred windows and doors
With panic buttons,
Standard features.

Big expensive car
High-octane lifestyle
Always rushing
Hard on the move
Exhaust fumes trailing.

Credit card consumerism
Everything’s for sale
Nothings discounted
Three score years and ten to pay
The bonded interest.

The cycle repeats
Inevitable surprise
Parent to child transmission
New grown-ups the same
Stunted growth, unquestioning.

Fiscal policy and indignity
The price we pay for progress
Wholesale compromise, we regress
The emperor’s tailor knows
The cost of such success.