Author Bio

Tom Eaton

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).

More by Tom Eaton

TOM EATON | So those ‘acquisitions’ popping up around Mashatile ... does it need to be said?

These coincidences prove nothing except that the Mashatile family is very sociable and very lucky when it comes to lucrative lines of work, writes Tom Eaton

TOM EATON | A Liberation Movements Summit that invites a despot and enablers — huh?

Meanwhile, not a peep on Eswatini, a monarchy ruled by a cynical tyrant who just welcomed 150 ‘terrorists’ from Donald Trump, writes Tom Eaton

TOM EATON | SA is wrong to court ‘communists’, but genocide-backing US can do the same?

A close look at the US lawmakers leading this bilateral rough-handling brings the hypocrisies into focus, writes Tom Eaton

TOM EATON | Madiba got it wrong here — history will judge us according to who writes it

If future history is written the way the past has been air-brushed, it wouldn’t be altogether surprising if in 50 years Israel is considered to be the ‘good guy’, writes Tom Eaton

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