Tom Eaton Columnist

Tom Eaton is one of SA's most prominent newspaper columnists, also known for his cricket writing. He has also written screenplays and several books, including The De Villiers Code (2005) and Is It Me or Is It Getting Hot in Here?: Great Expectations and Boiling Frogs in South Africa (2020).

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Watch as armchair virologists and revolutionaries invade geopolitics

In the coming politically confusing days, expect to see the widespread insistence that two wrongs do, in fact, make a right

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | The ANC may be barking mad, but at least its finance minister isn’t

Our fiscal leaders have delusions of SA’s economy being a leaping Labrador but it is more akin to a crippled chihuahua

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Remember, Thabo, you created this monster, or has ‘intellect’ ...

At the weekend Mbeki bemoaned the state of the ANC, yet ‘cadre deployment’ was his doing. Nonetheless, we’ll live

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TOM EATON | Singling out VW Polo drivers won’t get us there alive

RTMC thinks they’re SA’s most dangerous drivers and wants the speed limit lowered. Does it get how numbers work?

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | SA, let me introduce you to a new concept — it’s called ...

The ‘chancers’ who choose not to pay for their electricity now have something to consider

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | After watching this space for so long, SA will take any shiny thing

The wrangle and fawning over Ramaphosa’s optimistic words feels like some kind of Stockholm Syndrome

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | In domestic bliss and bath-time coups it’s all good, bad and ...

Here’s an educated guess on the contents of Sona, which will all be forgotten by Friday. I thank you

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Sona would matter if SA’s doyen of maths and science were ...

Sona matters, says government, because it creates ‘a transparency’, but only William Smith can do that

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Jezebel and red dragons allowing, the new chief justice should do ...

Mogoeng, who barely inhabited this world, did a competent job of it, so it should be a doddle for his successor

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | And just like that Boris says he may smoke Bain, but not today

The UK prime minister says he will look into the firm, the SA arm of which ‘helped capture Sars’. When is another story