This piece of politically-correct tripe was South Africa’s contribution to a UN waffle-fest on climate change recently: Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the devastating effects of climate change….
2007
Posted inMedia
Blogging: The great seduction
I have written for newspapers. But, apart from the (very occasional) story that made it to the front page, I can’t recall the same frisson of excitement I feel when I submit a blog posting. Ridiculous, really. Print journalists write for huge audiences: the Sunday Times has more than 3,6-million readers. One of its top […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Could Mbeki be too smart to govern?
I get many emails from satisfied readers and from readers who think I’m a nitwit. One reader of the Silwane Files sent me this email: Hi Ndumiso, I thoroughly enjoyed your blogs from when you were blogging on Amagama. I have noticed that since you started blogging on Thought Leader, you have been on a […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Showdown between Gordon Brown and Robert Mugabe
Much hot air is being let off in the media in the United Kingdom today, September 20, about the gauntlet thrown down by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Portugal, organiser of the European Union-African Union summit scheduled for December 2007. If Portugal, who has the EU leadership for the next few months, invites Robert Mugabe […]
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Copy-editing the ANC
If there ever were a case for pre-publication editing (not censorship), it would be the series of articles that have appeared on ANC Today called A Fundamental Revolutionary Lesson: The Enemy Manoeuvres But It Remains the Enemy. It is not that I disagree with the arguments being made; it is that I am not sure […]
Posted inSport
The intriguing Mourinho is gone
Jose Mourinho is gone — at least from Chelsea football club. But what an impression he left. The figure of the histrionic, hirsute and handsome man in a grey Armani coat remains etched on our minds. Let’s get this straight from the outset, I support Arsenal. His leaving is, in a way, liberating; those who […]
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American journalism isn’t all bad: why I love the New York Times
American journalism has many ills, but the great American newspapers — the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times — remain magnificent examples of the medium. I used to be an Anglophile newspaper reader, starting my day with the Guardian and the Independent, but I hardly ever visit those two sites these […]
Posted inLifestyle
The Knackered Chef
Since my public admission (on this website) about my non-existent handyman skills, I’ve recently been challenged on another essential “must have” before I can officially call myself a “millennium man”, but this one I refuse to take on the chin! According to my wife, I can’t cook, but picture, if you will, the following scene […]
Posted inBusiness, Sport
Sepp Blatter is wearing no clothes
I hate to be the one to say that the emperor is not wearing any clothes … but, the emperor is not wearing any clothes. The 2010 World Cup in South Africa has become overhyped to the point where ordinary South Africans are being duped and are headed for financial disaster. Let me say, though, […]
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Dealing with my attention crisis
As the amount of new information produced in the world every day escalates, so I find my attention span decreasing in equal and opposite proportion. As more people in South Africa start publishing their own media online — on Facebook, blogs, videos and podcasts — so my choices about what to pay attention to become […]
Posted inGeneral, Tech
Thought Leaders – When in Rome
We all have secrets. We all have some hidden tales that have been silently stacked away for years. But, today is the day of truth! The day the real facts about our Thought Leaders are revealed. Using the the latest forensic technology, modern investigation techniques and, of course … wait for it … Break.com. I […]
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The all-New Novel Life (and barking dogs named Brunhilde)
So I’ve had me an epiphany. A three-week-old epiphany, but when epiphanies come a-knocking I don’t like to refuse them. Instead of rabbiting on about life and love and everything else (which is, in fact, what I do on my daily blog — www.blog.bridgetmcnulty.com), I’m going to stick to my word (or words, in my […]