Just three today, but they’re all winners, as far as I’m concerned. This is kind of the continuation of my tapping into the design vein on the internet and seeing what I can find. There is a wealth of extraordinary stuff out there! So here are three whimsical Friday offerings: Sfgirlbybay (http://sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com/). At first, it […]
2008
Posted inNews/Politics
From China, with love
Seventy-seven tonnes of guns, mortars and other rubbish is lying in Durbs harbour — ready to be shipped to Zim. From China, with love. It makes me sick; it makes me want to vomit, cry, shout, kick, and scream. It really wants to make me hurt someone. Really bad. And for a non-aggressive person, that […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Zimbabwe: Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
When Mugabe and his henchmen start spouting on about treason and fictitious requests for invasion, purportedly made by the MDC and ridiculed by the British government, then their intent is all too clear. What the electorate of Zimbabwe has taken away, Mugabe and his now illegal regime will reclaim over the dead bodies of “his […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Zim behind the scenes
In the past couple of days I’ve been wondering what’s really going on behind the scenes in Zimbabwe. Many rumours have been in circulation, but I wasn’t too sure what to make of them. But now I’ve sniffed a very foul smell wafting from much further than Zimbabwe or Southern Africa — it comes all […]
Posted inSport
Should Cosatu leave transformation in cricket to sports authorities?
This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Should Cosatu leave transformation in cricket to sports authorities?
Posted inBusiness, Lifestyle, Media
The anti-cactus fountain trap is here. Women rejoice
Most major corporates invest millions of rands on innovation or R&D departments. R&D is that activity in the corporate world in which a bunch of nerdy, humourless and generally clueless sourpuss-scientist types spend their days creating products that will only become useful in the year 3245 AD and/or have no commercial value whatsoever. There’s a […]
Posted inLifestyle
Fresh grief
Death is serious business. It means the ending of a life of a person who once had dreams and aspirations that may or may not have been reached, but after the event of death, all is nullified and those dreams are terminated, if not bestowed upon the next generation for their longevity. It was so […]
Posted inLifestyle, News/Politics
Hijab revolution
May 1968 was a month of revolution for France. It was a series of student protests and a general strike that caused the collapse of the De Gaulle government. The events were seen as an opportunity to shake up the “old society” and traditional morality, focusing especially on the education system and employment. And 40 […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Go, Zuma, go!
Before virtual tomatoes are flying through cyberspace and into my direction, I am not the least a JZ fan. The way he thinks about the relationships between men and women, his (in my opinion) strange ideas about HIV and showers, and the alleged corruption charges have made me very wary about this chap. However, despite […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Who will build Uhuru Highway?
The in-flight magazine on Kenyan Airways had the usual-usual. The spine of the magazine surprised: a Swahili proverb had been written on it. I cannot remember the exact wording, but it read something like: When two bulls fight, the people suffer. — Swahili proverb A subtle reminder that the political fighting in Kenya was having […]
Posted inLifestyle
Why I won’t talk to my wife in the morning
My wife and I no longer talk to each other in the morning. We’re just too busy wandering around the house with our mouths full of oil. We’re members, you see, of that little-known global community, the Society of Oil Pullers. Laugh away, but oil pulling is catching on fast — and you didn’t even […]
Posted inLifestyle
A taste of Borneo
It’s my fourth day in Borneo and I’ve eaten such an odd assortment of things in such a weird range of flavours that my taste buds are thoroughly bewildered. A couple of days in the jungle regions near Sandakan have exposed them to tastes such as bitter gourd, pineapple-and-chilli salad, sago in coconut milk and […]