Ever since I devoured Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on a plane ride between Perth and Melbourne in Australia and followed that up with a couple of reads of The Great Shark Hunt, I have been a Hunter S Thompson fan. Having read almost everything he has had published, I was relieved to find […]
2007
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Pass the eggnog, I’m sick of Christmas already
I’ve heard of Christmas in July, but Christmas in October is pushing the limits of reason. There are houses on Duncan Street in Pretoria that have neon reindeer, Santas and elves, lit up like a bordello. Yesterday my radio was playing Last Christmas by George Michael, and you can buy Christmas decorations at Game and […]
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The Bobby bounce
Bob Mugabe had a farm, then anudder and anudder, his fleece was white as snow — then he didn’t have an agricultural sector. So he called all his wise men together and requesteth (request — past tense, which is appropriate on account of Zimbabwe being very tense) how they could feed the population while keeping […]
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Angry utterance (9)*
For two weeks, there was something wrong with the world. It was like there was yin but no yang — or was there yang but no yin? It’s sometimes too difficult to tell one’s yin from one’s yang. The day started off just like any other day with Khwezi, our toddler, waking us up at […]
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Sexpo revealed — with video
Is this going to an Eyes Wide Shut experience? Will Dirk Diggler be there showing off his manhood? Can I cop a feel or what? This Sexpo thing had me wondering from the moment I saw the first of many billboards around Johannesburg. When I heard “a guy would be painting with his … ahem […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Who do YOU want to be the next president?
In my book I have a chapter entitled “Let the masses eat pap” in which I publicly declare my voting record since 1994 when FW de Lincoln said people with my melanin content could. My rationale for revealing this great secret was based on two observations: 1. Figuring out that a black male who grew […]
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Figures of speech
So I have been told that I’m the new recruit on Thought Leader and, wow, what a privilege it is to be among such people. I’m actually taking over from the previous M&G Online Dutch intern and I have big shoes to fill. So, as reference — the original three blog post are not mine […]
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Go, Bokke … (Well, most of the time)
Rugby bamboozles me. It must be passing the ball backwards and running forward at the same time. I have also never played rugby — if you exclude a couple of games of that sissy sport touch rugby. Of course, that qualifies me to write an article on rugby. And that’s being more ambitious than wanting […]
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When Mick Jagger sang ‘Sympathy for the Devil’, was he referring to record companies?
I read on the Mail & Guardian that there is an intriguing trial under way in Minnesota. Jammie Thomas is one of 26 000 people being sued by a viper’s nest of record companies for making available songs on her PC for download via Kazaa, a popular peer-to-peer MP3 download mechanism that replaced the trailblazing Napster. […]
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From MyMedia to OurMedia
This piece began life as a response to Zukile Majova’s rather verbose entry on “National interest versus public interest“, but the more I wrote the more I found myself including my own definitions and/or interpretations to the debate. Eventually I decided that I should probably treat this as something more of my own verbose rant […]
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Innovation to the top — climbing Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair
Bern Goosen is a South African quadriplegic, and tomorrow he will begin his third attempt to mount Kilimanjaro. In a wheelchair. He won’t be pushed. He won’t be carried. He will use his brute strength to get there, and you can watch it all on your computer. Thanks to the collaboration of local technology companies, […]
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Innovation to the top — climbing Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair
Bern Goosen is a South African quadriplegic, and tomorrow he will begin his third attempt to mount Kilimanjaro. In a wheelchair. He won’t be pushed. He won’t be carried. He will use his brute strength to get there, and you can watch it all on your computer. Thanks to the collaboration of local technology companies, […]