I’ve never been one that’s liked getting involved in the Israel: Palestinian conflict for all my interest in politics. As such I’ve tended to have a rather under-developed (to put it mildly) understanding of the dynamics going on there relative to other thinkers.
I’ve come to understand some of those dynamics recently though and unfortunately they’re [...]

I’ve just been watching Tokyo Sexwale on e-tv, dogmatically denying that his company took any bribes or got any under-the-table support from the Iraqi government. Well, I’m pretty sceptical. The Iraqi al-Maeda news report that broke this whole scandal was based on information recovered from the archives of Saddam’s oil ministry. Let’s apply Occam’s Razor [...]

Seems that Mugabe and his dear Zanu-PF despots have decided to initiate theas well now.
This might actually be pretty interesting. The regime has shown no ability for proper planning or understanding of technical matters coupled with a broad habit for massive waste. Now having them design a sophisticated hacking or snopping software to counter the [...]

Being realistic is one thing, being a happy fool is something entirely else.
There are periods when the newspapers project the national or regional mood of the populace. I can still recall overly pessimistic ones going back a little more over a couple of years, but lately the media seems to have become overly optimistic.
I’m not [...]

I’ve put up my first article contribution to the site, which I submitted a while back for publication to a local newspaper, but which was rejected. For the full text, either click on the link offered in the articles box or over

Hmmm, time for something both esoteric and personal at the same time.
It’s strange though really, how things are beginning to change for me personally.
It’s not a case of things shifting around me so much but things within me beginning to shift. That’s probably a cryptic description in itself but it summarises well what’s going on [...]

The Star newspaper hadon the recent female suicide bomber mohter in Israel.
I don’t think it matters much anymore for psychological effect whatever type Hamas uses now – a suicide bomber is a suicide bomber really. Playing with the gender or age might be an attempt to catch people off guard but beyond that I don’t [...]

John Stossel of ABC News recently did a feature of While they apply to the United States, I thought three in particular would be of interest to the situation in South Africa as well.
Myth No. 6 is that the Republicans shrink the US Government. The truth is they haven’t in the last 75 years in [...]

It’s official, the West Indies cricket side are a joke.
At first I laughed at the underlying reason for the above statement but now I’m just plain disgusted after reality settled in. How did a nation that was once regarded as the best in the world and capable of producing players like Viv Richards or Sir [...]

I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the Democratic Alliance in its current configuration cannot ever hope to attain any vestige of real power in South African politics to make it a proper challenger to the ANC.
It’s not because some of their positions are wholly unacceptable to the populace, but it comes down to a [...]

Finally! After several months of mixing and mincing combined with waiting and debating, the online website journal Commentary is finally a go.
I am Wayne Wides, your humble host and set to be joined by another very shortly. Hopefully several others more will come on board over time.
Things as they are though aren’t fixed or settled, [...]