A few weeks ago, I wrote about my irrational, superstitious belief in God in a piece entitled “An irrational believer in God”. The sheer volume of emails I received in response was a bit overwhelming. The emails can be divided into four categories: 1. Other consciously irrational, superstitious religious types who emailed me to tell […]
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Social media is and should be seen as a communications discipline
Any good public relations professional or agency knows that good PR is not the result of media relations only, but also the result of building relationships with journalists and publishers, who in turn go on to build relationships with their readers. Similarly, any reputable marketer knows that good marketing is a by-product of vertical and […]
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Arrested development
The mayhem started at 7am last week Wednesday when a bakkie with eight people loaded on the back overturned. It ended 12 hours later with a crash that saw four women — one of whom was pregnant — killed. In between the crashes, there was an armed cash heist. This all took place in what […]
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Gevisser on Aids: A complicity of opposites
The Aids debate has entered a fascinating phase with Mark Gevisser’s nervous and hesitant — yet unmistakable — admission that President Thabo Mbeki is not now, nor has he ever been, an Aids denialist. Queried by the Sunday Times on Mbeki’s Aids stance, Gevisser replied: “He [Mbeki] doesn’t call it denialism, and I agree with […]
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What they definitely won’t teach you at Harvard Law
My very first encounter with criminal law was when my principal Kyriaco (Jack) Hajibey told me to go to the OK Bazaars, buy a bottle of Colgate Shampoo and pay for it at the counter nearest the door. As the clerk of this eminent attorney, of Cypriot extraction, who was I to argue? It seemed […]
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Talking music
Seeing as there’s so much hellfire, damnation and slimy things with slimy legs crawling upon a slimy sea, I thought I’d really wind my neck in and talk music. Or rather the music you just gotta get, ’cause in the magical list below exist the latest, finest and most versatile stuff today. Seek you the […]
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Single white male
Nambitha is a restaurant situated in the heart of Johannesburg’s Soweto township. The township, famous the world over because of its former status as the major launch pad of the South African freedom struggle, has become a popular destination for culture seekers and tourists of all nationalities, both local and International. Soweto’s fame and tourist […]
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Riding for freedom with Mugabe!
George Bernard Shaw got about on a Lea-Francis, and his good friend Lawrence of Arabia killed himself on a Brough Superior. Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, George Orwell, King Hussein of Jordan, Howard Hughes, Bob Dylan, King George VI, Sammy Davis Jnr, Billy Idol, Mark Knopfler, Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, Buddy Holly, Lauren Hutton, kings Albert […]
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Save some money, protect our leaders, have a little fun …
To: The Honourable Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula Dear Minister, I note with concern that I have not once, in recent months, been bowled into the ditch by a cavalcade of fast-moving WaBenzis dashing about on their very important business here in KwaZulu-Natal. While I never really enjoyed the experience per se, it […]
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Mussolini comes to town!
As I slowly circle a soggy Durban International Airport’s pay parking area waiting for my wife to emerge from the arrivals terminal, my bad-temper hormones are doing what they always do when faced by bureaucratic arrogance. This does not make a grumpy ugly bastard look any better. There are a mere dozen stopping bays in […]
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The Suresh-Ferial Fisticuff damp squib
So, Riaan Wolmarans, the M&G Online and Thought Leader editor, has finally come up with the goods and managed to get the effervescent human magnet, Ronald Suresh Roberts, to join Thought Leader. What a scoop! And to get Ferial Haffajee to join the fray … well, sheer genius. Who can argue that for the past […]
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May these sheep all run off a cliff
I hate sheep. Afrikaans sheep, to be exact, and more specifically, Christian Afrikaans sheep. Some excellent thoughts have been shared on Thought Leader in the past week on Rapport editor Tim du Plessis’s firing of columnist Deon Maas for sharing his thoughts on satanism, resulting in a vehement SMS and email campaign by readers that […]