Britain’s recently been shocked by the “news” that avaricious members of parliament have been fleecing the taxpayer royally. But their MPs are mere amateurs compared to those we’ve elected in South Africa who have their snouts so deep in the trough that they’ve forgotten why they are there in the first place. The rot starts […]
2009
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C’mon Becks, it’s time to conquer Africa!
I suppose David Beckham wasn’t quite expecting the verbal volley from Galaxy fans on his return. Then again, what did he expect? If you tell your wife you love her dearly, then spend half a year flirting outrageously with an exotic supermodel, will you really be surprised if you are confined to the couch and […]
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Celebrating Tata Madiba in the Big Apple!
By Judy Sikuza Tata Madiba’s birthday celebrations resulted in a New York City that was heavily infected with a fever. This was not the superfluous kind such as the swine flu which causes debilitation but rather the kind that everyone coveted to be infected with. The Mandela Day celebrations were like a fever that permeated […]
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We get robbed by car guards daily
Car guard. Those two words and the encounters they imply elicit a maelstrom of knee-jerk responses in me, some of which negative and some, well, less negative. Fortuitously for purposes of my venting here, these responses appear to follow a fairly easy to map progression, in a fashion I liken to an inverted three-phase traffic […]
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Referees deserve their due and our respect
Rugby is acknowledged as one of South Africa’s “big three” when it comes to discussing professional sports. The game, plus football and cricket, forms the triangle of opportunity where a person can make a decent living, if not more. If you had to draw up a list of ingredients necessary for a game of rugby […]
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The Hitler dollar
Have you ever read Mein Kampf? I did. At school. Okay, I didn’t finish it but I did take it out the library. How bizarre is that? It was readily available in my school library. There on the shelf in the Non-Fiction section. Yes, in the Non-Fiction section. Makes you wonder about that word. But […]
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Oy vey, I recant!
Okay, wow, several lessons learned! I apologise to those in the blogging community whom I have mortally offended, by all means keep my post as a prime example of what not to do as an introductory text and show it to your friends and admirers with glee. Having never done anything like this in the […]
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The pragmatics of love
Not too long ago, I wrote two pieces on love for Thought Leader, and because of events in my own life the subject has been on my mind again lately. These events have compelled me to take a serious look at what one might call “the pragmatics of love”, because, no matter how convincing some […]
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Sports contracts: Are they binding or not?
I am not a law expert so I wouldn’t mind if law experts would chip in and help me where I am lacking or fill in with more details. How binding are sports contracts? In every profession, the employer would like you to fulfil certain duties that drive his business or company forward but that […]
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Religious belief is more logical than atheism
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”. These words were put by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into the mouth of his most-celebrated creation, Sherlock Holmes, and for me they provide a useful way of approaching the deepest mystery of all — is our universe and all that is […]
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Doping in sport: An ethical perspective
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a document in April 2005 on performance-enhancing substance use in sport (1). It inquired about many statements concerning the supposed anti-doping fight and how it may be successful. The document disputes that children need to be taken into account for a more restrictive moral and ethical anti-doping structure […]
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Cosatufication of South Africa
Over the past few weeks we have seen waves of strikes, one after the other, putting pressure on the newly formed administration of President Jacob Zuma. This was followed up by two significant events over the weekend both of which involve the ANC’s alliance partner Cosatu and neither of which covered them in glory either. […]