The day for buying teevees has begun. #BlackFriday: every marketer’s dream, every marketer’s nightmare. It’s the last day of November and this is the penultimate #ScratchTheSurface for 2024. You made it South Africa, welcome to the end of the year! Yesterday...
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A #NationalDisaster and a Mining Graveyard
#FoodPoisoning. He called it a national disaster, but what does that mean? It means that cash can be released from a specific fund to handle this situation. Is that what it is? A situation? In the past few weeks more than 24 of our babies have died and their cause of...
#SmokeThemOut. South Africa’s Armageddon under an #AbsentPresident
She laughed when asked if we are going to send help to the #ZamaZamas: “You want us to send help to criminals? We are not sending help to criminals; we are going to smoke them out”. That was the minister of the Presidency talking about 4000 illegal miners trapped...
#TrumpPETing Home & South Africa’s #NewCovid
He thumped home didn’t he? It was a landslide. Too close to call? What a load of rubbish, it was the red tide. One guy on social media said that waiting for the American voting results was like waiting to find out which STD you had. Another said that the world...
From #RussiaWithLove and Enoch Knock Jokes
I’m Tonya Khoury, and I’m back, back from a news hiatus and straight back into the thick of it. The biggest headline while I was away was the death of #MinisterLuckyStar: the wonderful Tito Mboweni. This man kept our country on the straight and narrow for so long; he...
#Panyaza vs #Mbalula and the First Rule of #YouTube
The first rule about YouTube is ‘Don’t talk about what’s happening in Palestine and Lebanon’. The second rule of YouTube is ‘You do not talk about what is happening in the Gulf and the Middle East’. And the final rule? If this is your first free speech rodeo, ‘You...
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#ValaUmgodi: The South African Death Penalty.
You’d be forgiven if you thought the beginning of 2025 was directed by #DavidLynch. Sadly, he died this week, but you’d still be forgiven. I’m back from a generous media break and I was never ready for #Stilfontein and #ValaUmgodi, #CloseTheHole. Our curtain raiser to...
The Diary of a #MediaMonitor #2024
2024, you biscuit. You kept me on my toes, china. It’s an ardent task, wrapping up twelve months of media. This is the tenth anniversary of #DiaryOfAMediaMonitor, and after a decade of headlines it’s time to shut the door and rummage through the splinters of what has...
#GoingBananas: #Dezemba Kicks Off with a #BlackFriday
The day for buying teevees has begun. #BlackFriday: every marketer’s dream, every marketer’s nightmare. It’s the last day of November and this is the penultimate #ScratchTheSurface for 2024. You made it South Africa, welcome to the end of the year! Yesterday...
A #NationalDisaster and a Mining Graveyard
#FoodPoisoning. He called it a national disaster, but what does that mean? It means that cash can be released from a specific fund to handle this situation. Is that what it is? A situation? In the past few weeks more than 24 of our babies have died and their cause of...