So it’s finally happening. Saturday March 15, two days before St Patrick’s Day (in honour of Harry, one of my characters in Strange Nervous Laughter, and his fascination with green food and Irish heritage). Bread Milk and Honey, the coolest coffee shop/bakery in the Cape Town CBD. The World’s Largest Cupcake. Most things are deliciously […]
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IQ is dead!
Part one: Emotional Intelligence 101 The one thing that tickles me endlessly on Thought Leader is the creativity in mixing serious issues of national concern with rib-cracking humour. I find some of the humour deliciously irreverent, and often laced with allegedly life-changing “lessons” and self-deprecating tips on how to cope with crap from fellow humans, […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Racists, Eskom and why I don’t want to put the boot in
The wave of racist comments around Eskom and its — and by extension the government’s — incapacity to manage things has abated a little in my life. I liked the timing of one person’s comment — with the news of the blackouts, and Kenya’s troubles, someone turned to me and exclaimed about Africa’s inability to […]
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Get the Stofile out your ears; it has to be Oregan Hoskins
South Africa and the Springboks, despite the interference and politicking of Mike Stofile and his cabal, took a trip to France and emerged as the world champions. Who can ever forget those wonderful scenes as our president was hoisted shoulder-high by the second rugby team to unite a nation? A shining light (sans power failure) […]
Posted inMedia, Sport
Team SA
I’m a fan of American football. I like the mix of chess, athletic grace and brute force. I like the stop-start nature of the game. I like the tension as the team with the ball get set to make their third attempt to move 10 yards in three plays or lose possession if they fail. […]
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Living in the past
Some time ago I was reading the Yfm page on Facebook and, I must say, I was not surprised at the number of people who are still complaining about the changes that have taken place at the station, two years down the line. This got me wondering why it is that people are just so […]
Posted inLifestyle
Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble …
If you had your life over again, except you could choose to have one virtue, one grace, one of the things you consider good character traits taken from you, what would it be? Think carefully now, little ones. We’re not talking about having your whole life, however long, however adventurous, however troubled, however dull, however […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Real transformation requires protection of sex workers
I wonder what ANC MP George Lekgetho made of weekend reports that a sex worker was challenging the fairness of her dismissal by her employer in the Labour Court. Lekgetho rightly got into serious trouble for his sexist statement last week that prostitution should be legalised for the 2010 World Cup because “that would make […]
Posted inLifestyle
Me — unplugged
I’ve been off the blog a few days now. Not because of Eskom (though Telkom is trying hard to regain its status as public enemy number one), not because of threatening emails, not because I haven’t had much to say (got plenty of both). Regular readers of my blog know I have major depressive disorder […]
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The headscarf girls
As a Muslim woman, I have often been asked if I would ever consider “covering up”. In my late teens and early 20s, my response was almost always a headstrong and “feminist” NO. I was motivated by my belief that Islam meant more than just your outward appearance. I also felt that such a decision […]
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The Windies, bad anthems and Shaun Pollock
Could it really be true, as Silwane and others have alluded to in the past, that music is a mind-altering substance and a direct cause of major changes of the course of history? I wonder, because it is entirely possible, isn’t it? I know what effect music has on me, the state of my soul […]
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Was it racism or was I paranoid?
Is it possible that my blog “God save us from the racists” was racist? I don’t think so. If there are those who think so, let them convince me of that fact before I can retract. I stand firmly with my views. Interpretation of any aggressive act by a person of another race as racist […]