News24 Ferial Haffajee

Attention ANC: we are a serious country with serious potential

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:23:30 +0200

The national testament the SA Institute of Race Relations sets out above is very different to the narrative about South Africa, writes Ferial Haffajee.

The unbearable contradictions of being Malema

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:02:17 +0200

This is a good time to look at four confusing contradictions that define the agenda and life of Julius Malema, writes Ferial Haffajee.

Tea girls of the world unite!

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:36:40 +0200

At an early age, I ran into the reality that we are all tea girls, writes Ferial Haffajee.

How the ANC lost the coloured and Indian vote

Mon, 23 May 2011 14:34:04 +0200

The reason it lost is that the ANC sees it as a coloured and Indian vote - when it didn't, the ANC was much more successful in these former strongholds, says Ferial Haffajee.

Towards 2012

Mon, 16 May 2011 20:06:25 +0200

When the story of this election is written, Julius Malema will be chronicled as its rockstar who built toilets, saved Gauteng, pushed back in Cape Town and secured his own future.

How much sushi can one man eat?

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:13:09 +0200

I don’t understand the fascination with Louis Vuitton. The leather’s hard and the emblazoned initials screech loud money.

A parallel world for Girl, 15

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:15:39 +0200

Ferial Haffajee sketches out a different week, a different life, for Girl, 15, of Jules High. She first came to attention for alleging that she had been gang-raped.

The courting of contempt

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:12:44 +0200

‘Arented dog of a conspiracy theory.” Say what? You’ve got to give it to the ANC Youth League for consistency: the H for Woodwork, the E for Elocution and I for Ignorance seem endemic to its membership.

The SABC's B-roll

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:09:57 +0200

A producer at SABC had Ferial Haffajee flummoxed and revealed the poverty of assigning and production talent that has been allowed to creep in through the years of crisis.

Laager mentality is a load of bull

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:02:13 +0200

The professor’s cheeks puffed red as he questioned why Absa chief executive Maria Ramos had not said a word about the crisis at the bank.