As Jews one of the first things we learn is that suicide is absolutely taboo. It can never be condoned in religious terms and accordingly should never even be contemplated. There are even separate burial laws for those who have done the deed. Of course in logistical terms there are far more compelling reasons why […]
2009
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Phansi Xenophobia Phansi!!!
My peace was interrupted this morning by the xenophobia being peddled by some twit in a suit on television. Now while the SABC is free to choose whom they invite to appear as experts on any particular matter, the fact is that getting a dude who claims to be the shadow deputy minister of defence […]
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Why do South Africans hate pedestrians?
So I am back in the country. In Cape Town shooting a commercial. Yes, Cape Town. And yes, I know I wrote an article slagging off the place. But that’s life. Full of irony. It has been a great trip. The weather has treated us fairly well (if you can ignore the wind). Our crew […]
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I am quite positively in love with Agnes
Agnes is the lady who comes around every Tuesday to do our housework and make sure the house I share with a housemate, D-dog, doesn’t deteriorate to hygiene levels below that of an Eastern Cape farm’s pigsty. I think I have fallen for her and it took her being away for three months or so […]
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Lessons from India
Before I went to India, I was warned that it could potentially have a life-changing impact on me. And it did. Days after I returned from Mount Abu, via Ahmadabad, Mumbai, Doha, Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg, I am still struggling to get to grips with what I had experienced and how it has changed […]
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Scrumboks!
“Scrum, scrum, scrum!” The immortal words whispered down from Springbok generation to generation. Someone must have forgotten to tell the vintage of 2009. The Springbok year-end tour is destined for the annals of disaster as the Springboks succumbed to their third tour defeat in a row against “SA – Racens” last night. The English are […]
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Fifty million plates of biryani
It is my distinct pleasure to congratulate the 1860 Legacy Foundation, firstly on its decision to extend equal membership of the Legacy Foundation to every one of the descendants of the 1860 settlers who are now 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th generation South Africans and secondly its decision to celebrate the 150th year of the […]
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When good rugby goes bad for R3m
You might ask what do the Springboks and Stuart Tinner have in common. If your answer is £250 000 (about R3.1 million) you would be right. Each received £250 000 for last night’s performance and some may argue that Tinner showed more talent. Tinner by the way is the chap, who in his socks, kicked a 30m punt […]
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Karma and scissor muggings
My boyfriend and I were mugged on Monday, by two young men (probably only 19) wielding a pair of kitchen scissors as their weapon. The evening was a beautiful haze of soft light, and as we walked along the slow-moving river, we were marvelling at the beauty of nature and feeling completely at peace. It […]
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My suitcase: Truth is indeed stranger than fiction
I don’t keep my skeletons in a closet, I keep them in a suitcase. It’s much easier to flee with a suitcase in hand when the authorities come. This way you can run away with your evidence. This is why I prefer suitcases. When I lived in Cape Town, a friend of mine used to […]
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What makes Kallis a great Test cricketer?
What makes a great Test cricketer? It is a question which cannot be answered by mere statistical analysis alone since numbers fail to explain the importance of circumstance and context. Often, a gritty 67 is more valuable then a double century, a single wicket in a session is so important it puts a five-wicket haul […]
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Ras Bafana Bafana — they’ve lost my support
Here’s a fun question: who do you hate more, Brandon Huntley or Ras Dumisani? The white man who jaded an entire country by being a monumental ass, or da black mon who jaded an entire country by being a monumental, er Rasta? Letting alone the question of why we’re so jade-able as a country in […]