2009

We’re really proud to announce the next step in our digital journey at FNB — the launch of the brand spanking new website. The website relaunch has been a project of mammoth proportions, with amazing collaboration between teams from all over the bank. As I blog this, the guys from the online team are still […]

No really. I’ve been pondering this lately. When your number’s up and you’re hauled before the Heavenly Lifetime Review Board, what goes down? You know, that final moment when you have to make a case for floating about in the land of milk and honey and not being condemned to perish with thieves, fornicators, drug […]

Hi, I’m Jess and I am new on the M&G blogspot. My reason for joining? Wanting to understand knowledge. I wanted to understand knowledge so much that I took a course last year called “Tradition, Science and the Environment” in which — for the first time in my life — it wasn’t just me who […]

Movies have a great way of promoting a country. They turn people on to the idea of travelling there. Crocodile Dundee sparked a whole generation of American tourists to Australia. After watching Mick Dundee tackling crocs and sweeping a New York broad off her feet, they wanted nothing more than a bit of Down Under […]

This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Are there problems within Cope’s leadeship, or is the party experiencing teething problems?

By Errol Hendrickse I wrote an article for Mix Future Interiors magazine a little while back that looked at the collaboration between Africa and Europe, and I want to touch on this subject again. The reason I wrote it was to illustrate the amazing relationship the two continents have had and how this has moulded […]

The year was 2003, it was at the end of July and I was exploring the streets of lower Polokwane’s CBD in an attempt to map out the locations of every place that sold anything with a little chilli in it. Apart from the real Vetkoek Paleis and a decent Halaal Diner, there was not […]

Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, communists spent endless nights analysing what it was that had brought the Soviet Union to its knees. A number of causes were found. Chief among them was the realisation that with the act of nationalising the economy and removing it from the hands of the bourgeoisie, the […]

While SA Rugby deals with charges from the IRB about bringing the game into disrepute and receives a sanctioning or fine regarding the senseless “masking-tape protest” there are distractions like the roll-out of the Currie Cup around the country, Craven Week in East London, Tri-Nations on July 25 in Bloemfontein against the All Blacks, Rugby […]