2008
Posted inNews/Politics

Key questions the ANC can never get around on the Scorpions

Michael Trapido by Michael Trapido

The more argument that is presented to justify closing down the Scorpions the less convincing the proponents become. I’d like to simplify it with a few short questions: www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-22-key-affidavit-used-to-smear-scorpions Firstly, if for example the CIA, FBI, DIA, MI5, MI6 or any other unit was under investigation for politicking or otherwise, do you think the governments […]

Posted inLifestyle

Do you want to be a Lazy Brain Trainer?

Bridget McNulty by Bridget McNulty

Did anyone know we’re in the midst of the Year of Creativity 2008? Apparently we are. Don’t believe me? Check out www.yoc2008.com While you’re there, take a browse through their ‘Be the Change’ project, which they describe as “an entertaining and ironic way of expressing our multiple identities through a set of highly original, personalised […]

Posted inNews/Politics

The United States presidential election: celebrating wars and the people who fought in them

I Lagardien by I Lagardien

A recent series of photographs, a medium which is close to my heart, published in the United States illustrates the ways in which the military, militarism and war have become central and defining features of the imagery surrounding the 2008 presidential elections. One of my absolute favourite blogs, BagnewsNotes, (which, incidentally, renders my own analyses […]

Posted inGeneral

Stars in their own eyes

Lungani Zama by Lungani Zama

It must be tiresome being an English national soccer team supporter. I mean, it’s tough supporting our own Bafana, but at least we have come to accept our limitations on the world stage. But imagine having the richest league in the world — though a little over populated by foreigners admittedly — the best feeder […]

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Would China invade Russia?

Michael Trapido by Michael Trapido

The United States’ continued preoccupation with Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran has opened a window of opportunity for Russia to win back some of her global influence and prestige. Since August 7 she has flung Georgia out of South Ossetia and crossed the border, entered into a new arrangement with Syria, threatened to return to Cuba, […]

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We are part of the Pussy Nation?

Ndumiso Ngcobo by Ndumiso Ngcobo

So, former Fidentia robber Arthur Brown has decided to pull a Schabir on all of us and is applying to be further upgraded from the already comparatively more comfortable Pollsmoor Prison hospital to the luxury of a private clinic. Just because he’s depressed? Good god. I have always just assumed that every inmate is freaking […]

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Come back, Carlos — all is forgiven!

Craig Urquhart by Craig Urquhart

When an interviewer recently asked Springbok ace Francois Steyn what the most frightening experience of his life was, he said it was the moment he was signed by the Sharks, knowing he would have to move to Durban and learn to speak English. Bafana coach Joel Santana could be forgiven for feeling the same way, […]

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Bokke vs Wallabies: pride at stake

Siyabonga Ntshingila by Siyabonga Ntshingila

Last week, the Bok pack held its own against an All Black unit full of grunt, experience and guile. This afforded the halfbacks and loose forwards plenty of forward momentum and space to work with. We know they made less use of that last weekend than Uncle Bob does with the Zimbabwean Constitution, frittering possession […]