Barney Mthombothi, a columnist for the Sunday Times, is a former editor of the Financial Mail and the Kwazulu-Natal-based Sunday Tribune, and also headed SABC News earlier. He is respected as a political commentator.

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | ANC’s hard left faces a reality check

That the president’s remarks on job creation elicited heckles and groans from the Left shows they realise their world of make-believe is about to ...

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | SA should take its lead from UK on how to dismiss ...

Cressida Dick is probably a name many South Africans won't readily recognise. She was, until this week, head of London’s Metropolitan Police, ...

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | In life and death, Nakasa a grave indictment of how SA ...

When the grave of an icon like Nat Nakasa is destroyed, we have to ask what SA has come to, writes Barney Mthombothi.

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | Cricket SA’s harassment of Boucher and Smith is a political ...

After the Proteas’ phenomenal victory against India, we are told performance doesn’t matter. It matters a great deal to me. I want a winning team, ...

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | The wuss in the Union Buildings conned us into false hope

President Ramaphosa has at every turn failed to take decisive action when the interests of the country demanded it — will he have the courage now to ...

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | The ANC survives only thanks to a myth that grows more ...

It was never supposed to turn out this way, writes Barney Mthombothi

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | What have we done to deserve such incompetent leaders?

The burning of parliament, along with the July riots, tells us SA’s problems have taken a serious turn for the worse.

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | Take the helm, Mr President!

Ignoring the rudder of law and order will see us washed ashore like flotsam and marooned on a perilous island.

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | ‘His Excellency’ did a passable job in French Africa, but ...

While President Ramaphosa was doing a jig in Ghana, problems at home mounted to a fever pitch, writes Barney Mthombothi.

BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI | It’s time for bare-fisted action against the Omicron bullies

Western countries’ decision to shut off SA and its neighbours from their shores isn't based on science but on politics. Like the cowards that they ...