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 | Lotto red flag: one way or another, the state will get that ‘tax’ ...

How could the government resist? It’s a honeypot fed by gambling addicts or poor people pushed into a corner, writes Tom Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Elon Musk’s fascism isn’t a foreign import to the US, it’s a ...

Some of the most influential white supremacist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries germinated on American soil, writes Tom Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Zille calls it ‘taking opportunities seriously’, some call it ...

The same vocal critic of state capture and ANC corruption should balk at the mechanisms Apartheid used to leverage one demographic over another, ...

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Calm down, semigrants — Joburg isn’t so bad when seen from the back ...

In fact this Capetonian, yours truly, now sees what ANC ministers see

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Tonight on ‘Keeping Up With Imaginary White Victimhood’, live from ...

Saying Ramaphosa was ‘weak’ implies a possible, though likely implausible, alternative in which he might have emerged looking strong, writes Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Picture this: Don from the right, SA from the left, encircling ...

The many South Africans who would like to see Ramaphosa humiliated should give the president pause, writes Tom Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Dos and don’ts for Cyril when meeting Donald (be less shocked, for ...

No asking Trump how his administration wants to jail people as anti-Semites for calling out Israeli war crimes and yet welcomes as a refugee one ...

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | Lies have short legs, but luckily for 49 Afrikaner ‘refugees’, ...

Whatever their motives for leaving, it’s not a great look, writes Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | The empire strikes back, Malema strikes gold

It shouldn’t surprise the EFF CIC that his name is flagged by the vast surveillance systems that run the world, writes Tom Eaton

Tom Eaton Columnist
TOM EATON | In a foreign GNU, follow foreign ways

‘Misbehaving’ is an interesting word for adults to use about other adults, writes Tom Eaton