Shrrrikkt! Wolverine’s adamantium claws shred through the wooden door on the twenty-first floor of the abandoned building. The man, if such he is, known only as Arnie, is standing in the middle of the room, arms hanging, with that strangely emotionless face and the way cool sunglasses. Up swings Arnie’s machine gun as he bellows […]
2009
Posted inGeneral
Pardon? Perfect response to Zuma affording Shaik one
Speculation is mounting that President Jacob Zuma will pardon convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik and before Christmas too. This despite previous denials that it was being contemplated. “Zuma not only has the power to pardon, he also has the power to return the R39.2 million that the state confiscated from Shaik — and expunge his criminal record […]
Posted inLifestyle
Ethical farming III — stuffed and starved
I decided to write another blog on the topic to further clarify my position on a few issues and to adopt a more conciliatory tone. Too many people are worried about being wrong, they say nothing or refuse to change their position no matter how untenable. Reading the comments and debating with some of the […]
Posted inGeneral
Shiny bottle-top awards for 2009
The African President of the Year award is a publicity gimmick and this first-time award has as much credibility as one of the shiny bottle tops that Idi Amin used to wear on his chest.
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What went wrong for the Boks
Fatigue It has been a long season. And it showed. PdV and the provincial coaches need to sit down and work out a schedule per player on how the Bok 22 will be managed next year. I agree with him that international rugby is not the arena in which you rest players. It is the […]
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My Bok ratings
The front row — 5 Failed to consistently front up as a unit. Beast and Bismarck are tired and to be very frank have not been at their best for a while now. They were near invisible in the loose. Smittie didn’t play any worse than he has this year, but the Boks could have […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Making my choice
It is in fact the most difficult thing to choose the party with which one will associate; indeed it is a choice that most have not had to make, given that most of the politicians in South Africa were either born into their parties, or they were recruited at a young age, or they climbed […]
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Why is Obama talking to aliens?
The big news this week is that President Obama is set to announce that he is in contact with aliens. There are even rumours that this was the real reason behind his Nobel Peace Prize. The prize being seen as a form of global mandate in the upcoming intergalactic parley. While it doesn’t surprise me […]
Posted inLifestyle
So I got unfriended on Facebook
And I’m perturbed, mainly because unfriending anyone online is a big deal. It really is. Facebook, you see, has changed the nature of friendship quite profoundly for those who have entered that apparently innocuous blue and white portal, garlanded with cheery suggestions of “You haven’t talked to her lately” and such anodyne prompts as “What’s […]
Posted inBusiness
The power crisis
Eskom’s management mess comes as no surprise, given the state of the operation, regulatory rot and the leadership crisis at other parastatals
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So what is Nokia up to?
On Wednesday morning I headed over to the Nokia The Way We Live Next event in Cape Town. Richard Mulholland did an excellent (and very objective) job of explaining the current mobile landscape. During the presentation a few things were highlighted that really did make me think. Needless to say, the topic soon shifted to […]
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SA Rugby, now what?
Congratulations to the Australian Rugby Union who against all odds have managed (read carefully and meticulously choreographed) to bring the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, especially when ARU has 80 000 registered rugby players and SA Rugby more than 500 000, over 5 times the number of players in Australia. SA Rugby has had 4 years […]