Five stubborn common English errors

I CALL them stubborn because they refuse to go. We hear them everywhere, in the bank, queues, on the bus, radio and television, at home when we are relaxed and enjoying family communion, watching TV, ...

Constitutional Court saga lawyers

My Advanced Oxford Learners dictionary says, 'saga' means a long story of heroic deeds, events or adventures especially involving several generations of people. It goes further to give the adjective t...

Schools must stop rampant book piracy

Photocopying of textbooks, especially Literature set books, is illegal and must be stopped. Schools caught photocopying anybody's literary works without permission must be sued and face the long arm o...

Sangomas rule media, as churches silently watch

There is a new phenomenon on radio today, is it a trend? for traditional healers and all sorts of syncretism churches. These are churches with a version of Christianity which publicly borrows from Afr...

There can only be one Tuku

THE media is vibrating once again on Tuku's fame and fortune. There is a deliberate onslaught on his private life far off the musical icon's successful career path.Narrow and shallow- minded c...