2009

When Brandon Huntley is finally deported we should give him a Caster Semenya-size welcome at the airport. Hopefully with as many blacks as there were when Caster got her hero’s welcome. But I want a T-shirt that reads “Mug you later whitey” just for laughs. He must not be given the satisfaction of getting the […]

I am not an ardent follower or scholar of Steve Bantu Biko who died this week back in 1977 at the hands of the brutal South African security police. But I venture to ask … what would he feel, what would he do in present day South Africa were he alive? Many people dare say […]

Yes the Boks shouldn’t have lost on Saturday. Yes they performed poorly. Yes they let Australia off the hook with some poor decisions after great work in midfield. Yes they didn’t bring their usual fiery intensity to the match. But no, this is not the end of the world. In fact, it may well be […]

So Sepp Blatter and company have finally decided to stop worrying about crime statistics in South Africa and do their job as governors of the game. About time, too. Last week’s bolt from the blue may have left Chelsea feeling well, slightly blue, but it was a long overdue stamping out of one of football’s […]

I had the opportunity recently to have a text exchange (read: questions by email — the interview style of the time-pressed blogger) with Jake Larsen, head of the Nokia Music Store (Middle East and Africa). I was interested in how the Music Store has been doing post launch as it always takes a while for […]

I love beer … a lot. Most of my life revolves around the stuff. I have formed and broken friendships and relationships based on whether they would have a positive or negative impact on my beer consumption and its frequency. I work hard at my job, I don’t allow much to phase me, even blatant […]

Sometime in 2008, a Muslim woman clad in a hijaab (head scarf) was verbally abused in the East German city of Dresden by a German-Russian named Axel W who called her an Islamist, a slut, a terrorist and some other politically erroneous nonsense. Marwa el-Sherbini, an Egyptian national who was married and working in Germany, […]

I don’t know if many of you lot have noticed but there is a worrying trend that is starting to develop every time an issue crops up that grabs national attention — individuals or groups getting behind those who share their race rather than their ideas. This South Africans is your non-starter for ten. Though […]