As many of you may be aware the Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain has had four bouts of cancer and is 72 years of age, which, if he is successful, would make him the oldest first-term president in US history. With this in mind the possibility of Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, following […]
2008
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We’re not in Wasilla anymore, Sarah
You just have to love the irony of it all, notwithstanding the unbelievable spin that would have made Goebbels proud. Mrs Family Values, John McRage’s somewhat quirky running mate, has a pregnant teenage daughter. Now just because I was chaste as a youngster is no reason to frown on those who indulge. And I don’t. […]
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Carefully explaining to Chinese in Shanghai what it meant to grow up in the old South Africa
‘I was brought up on the back of a black woman,’ I said to my dumbfounded audience. I pointed to the picture on the screen in my power point presentation. It showed a black woman with a traditional African kaross on her back, in which was sleeping her baby while she worked in the fields. […]
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Antidote to racism and rage in rugby? Updated 9-11 2008
Rugby Racism Spat May Cause Soweto Club to Leave Main Union By Vernon Wessels Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — The Soweto Rugby Club, which started Johannesburg’s first senior black rugby team, threatened to quit the main provincial union, saying its claims of racist abuse weren’t dealt with. The union denied the allegation. The spat is the […]
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A young white Afrikaner on reconciliation and transformation
Submitted by Marius Redelinghuys During the first session of the South African Association of Political Studies annual conference at Kopanong Hotel and Conference Centre, Dr Sally Matthews (Rhodes University) touched on the subject of Reconciliation and the Acknowledgement of White Privilege in South Africa: A Discussion of the Home for All Campaign. She sought to […]
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Manchester what?!
Who? This must be some mistake? Man City, one of the big boys now? What the … ? Stealing Robinho from the clutches of Cunning Kenyon? Scaring Man United into action over Berbatov? Talking of winning the Champions League next season? What is going on here? City is supposed to be the ugly sister; the […]
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Google releases the open source browser Chrome
A quick mention this so you can be one of the first to dive in and test drive Google’s latest release on their ever growing list of wares and services. The new browser by Google called Chrome was officially announced on Tuesday, September 2 2008. Featuring some really useful and slightly different ways of operating. […]
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Savouring the mutual pleasures of the forbidden fruit
I was sitting on the garden under the cool shade of a tree; the tree branches were dancing to the wind; birds were singing a soothing melody; dry leave were falling on my head and beside, heralding the coming of winter. I was having an appointment with myself, my troubles locked behind the madam’s bedroom. […]
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OPEC: a cartel of remorseless oil sharks
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)’s supposed mission is to coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of member countries and ensure the stabilisation of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers and a fair return on capital to those […]
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Newcastle insanity with mystery surrounding Keegan departure
Newcastle United were supposed to have parted company with Kevin Keegan if press reports confirming his departure yesterday were to be believed. They suggested that after showdown talks with owner Mike Ashley the manager was shown the door. Needless to say this occasioned a Geordie backlash with fans protesting at St James Park earlier today. […]
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SA Telecoms Cool Wall
Inspired by Rudoph Van Den Burg’s riff on Jeremy Clarkson’s TopGear Cool Wall I thought a Cool Wall for the South African telecommunications and Internet community might be fun to do. For those who haven’t seen it, the TopGear Cool Wall ranks automobile coolness on a scale ranging from SubZero to Cool to UnCool to […]
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Peter De Villiers — not as bad as media would have us believe
Springbok rugby coach Peter De Villiers seems to be on a hiding to nothing. When his charges taste defeat – which has unfortunately happened rather regularly these past few weeks – he is roundly written off as incompetent and out of his depth by certain elements in the media. When they do manage to put […]