Firefox is a brilliant browser. It’s also fast. I discarded Internet Explorer (IE) about two years ago. It wasn’t an ideological decision, I wasn’t trying to make a point… it’s just that Firefox is a better browser. I still have IE7 on my laptop, but use it only for testing purposes. I find it slow […]
2008
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Terre’Blanche and the Afrikaner homeland
AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, addressing the Vryheid Agricultural Union last Thursday, called on the ANC to grant the Afrikaners a homeland. “We gave blacks their homelands. Why don’t the ANC do the same for us?” Sort of a little laager on the prairie — spare me. I’d like to call on the ANC on behalf […]
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Is South Africa ready for the Castle Doctrine?
One of my readers whom I shall call JS, in case he is nervous of being stalked, wrote in to tell me about an English common law principle which is finding more and more application in the United States of America. In essence the “Castle Doctrine” designates certain areas such as your home, car or […]
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Springbok Tests turned into a cheapskate sideshow
Being at Loftus on Saturday afternoon, one realised that the Springbok Team and Peter de Villiers’ management are being turned into some gaudy Vaudeville act, and it will lead to the demise of the performance of the Springboks. The emphasis on creating hype and a corny ‘big game build up’ is amateurishly reduced to loud […]
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Springboks explode Total Rugby onto the world stage
Springboks (17)37, Wales (14)21 The purists will scream foul, Wales redemption, but this was champagne rugby of the total variety. The Springbok class of 2008 taking rugby where South African soccer had dared not go before, unleashing the incredible ball skills and raw talents of this country. 1970s and Holland manager Rinus Michels introduced the […]
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Is it just me, or did Tito find the right calculator?
Isn’t it amusing to see the mainstream media and analysts froth about Tito Mboweni’s announcement of a 50 basis point interest rate hike smack, instead of the 200 point hammering he had threatened? Isn’t it obvious that our image-mad money boss had been sabre-rattling to scare the consumer audience that bears the main brunt of […]
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s second war of liberation
When Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU, later ZANU-PF) rose up against white minority rule in the 1960s and 1970s, they carried the backing of the majority of Zimbabweans and the world community. ZANU-PF and its class of 2008 carry the endorsement of neither. Where once they were the bearers of hope […]
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Civil liberties at stake
The only thing Britain’s Labour Party has in common with the country’s working people is its name. It’s been demonstrated over and over again in the past two decades that parties claiming to uphold the interests of the poor must do more than just being seers of truth and guardians of traditions. The neo-liberal agenda […]
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Krol: The turning point for beloved Bucs
There is a tendency in South African football to use one’s knowledge — or rather ignorance — as analysis in itself. If you know a name of a player or a coach, then that person is good. If you don’t, he is bad. You might remember the first time Delron Buckley and Hans Vonk were […]
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Luiz Felipe Scolari: Chelsea’s shpeshialsh onesh
Everyone’s always asking me where the name Trapido comes from. It is in fact Portugese in origin, and we trace our ancestory back to Porto a few centuries ago. Even though none of us actually speak the lingo, it does not prevent my sons and I from supporting Portugal against everyone but Bafana Bafana. Nothing […]
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It’s football, damnit!
First, let me state here that I had nothing to do with the tag under which this blog is appearing — that of calling football socc… I can’t even write the dirty word in full. Calling the beautiful game by that dreadful Americanism is one sure way of making me unsure about writing here. I […]
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Who watches the PSL?
So perplexed was I about the allegations flying around on this site that white boys don’t watch PSL, that I called a referendum of Dirty Sanchez to test this theory. I included all core members regardless of race to ensure that the results weren’t controlled by subversive umlungu colonial-types. Here are my results, with names […]