2009

My status updates on the increasingly ubiquitous Facebook platform don’t normally generate much in the way of interesting, meaningful discussion. Admittedly I’m probably to blame for that as I have a tendency to post stream-of-consciousness snippets that nobody understands, for my own amusement, or as a small marker of thought in time. At least I’m […]

Being a communicator and debating knowledge is probably a central (and mostly subconscious) concern of most skills and traits. Sadly though, it seems that the skill of interpersonal communication or facilitating the “sympathetic meeting of minds” is only briefly fondled by most formal programmes; often only as an “add-on” or an “optional extra”. Most of […]

By Klaus Bauer The scrap currently playing out between the Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) is childish and futile to say the least. In case you haven’t heard about this untimely melee, CSA has decided to take all planned international fixtures during the upcoming tour by England away from Wanderers. This […]

Attempting to understand why exactly 1.3  million South Africans cast their ballot in the 2009 elections with an “x” next to Terror Lekota’s face is by no means an easy undertaking. Apart from the obvious difficulties associated with locating and interviewing the 1.3 million people behind the secret ballots, the vast array of competing, contrasting or […]

We can all be forgiven for being apprehensive about the situation in Zimbabwe. For many years, Africa and the rest of the world has witnessed its political and economic meltdown which spilled over into neighbouring states, casting a pall over much of the subcontinent’s progress and, of course, South Africa’s 2010 World Cup preparations. Nevertheless, […]

A while back I wrote about the Battle of the Browsers between Opera’s Opera, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox versus Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. From the look of things, the axis of good have won with the recent announcement by Microsoft that they will be shipping Windows 7 to Europe without IE. It just makes me […]

Thinking people generally resent being presented with take-it-or-leave-it dogmatic certainties, especially when it comes to the “Ultimate Questions” of humanity’s origins and purpose. That being the case, why did I choose to present a pro-religion argument in my last post in so unqualified and in-your-face manner? It was not, contrary to certain rather spiteful suggestions […]

Sepp Blatter, the Fifa head honcho, is quite possibly also its biggest buffoon. From the ridiculous statements about female footballers wearing skimpy outfits to that affair where he stepped in on Real Madrid’s behalf (as is Fifa tradition) and declared the multimillionaire pansy Cristiano Ronaldo a slave for not being allowed to leave the club […]