What’s the first thing you think of when you have visitors coming to your house? Is it not entertainment? It should be. Well, that’s if you do get visitors like mine, who share a jealously guarded appreciation for Charles, Jack and Johnny, mixed with smooth deep-house beats. I suppose my visitors are no different from […]
2009
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WTF Cope?
Admitting mistakes and failures is never easy, especially when accompanied with “I told you so”. However, when your mistakes, failures and woes are subject to immense publicity in mainstream media — as has been the (mis)fortunes of the Congress of the People — it is best not to deflect, defend or denyi. Instead, the party […]
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Hawk(s), the power of one
He prowls the empty streets at night — waiting — in fast cars and on foot, he are the men of Hawk … or at least until they give him some little friends to play with. Don’t let me catch any of you lot sniggering. Do you think it’s easy watching the phones, making tea […]
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7 weeks and I’m outta here …
Not because I don’t love it here, because I do, but because I’ve got itchy feet and I’m raring to travel. Around the world, in fact. For 9 months. Together with my partner, Mark Peddle, who is a photographer, I’m about to embark on a Round-the-World journey spreading positive diabetes awareness. I’m a type 1 […]
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The fall of the prestigious Amsterdam Tournament
As four European clubs line up to take part in the Amsterdam Tournament from July 24 to 26, you will notice that it has lost the magic it once possessed. Big giants of European football (Manchester United, Arsenal, Internazionale, Liverpool, Porto) dreamt of playing in this prestigious tournament at the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands, […]
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Does size matter?
By Errol Hendrickse Throughout history the female form has been celebrated as the one of the most beautiful things: we have pagan rituals that pay homage to the wonder of femininity, Christian denominations that worship the mother of Christ, we call the very ground our food is grown from Mother Earth but yet today we […]
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The liberation of the caveman
By Zdena Mtetwa I have driven down Witkoppen road many times, coming from the Fourways direction in the early hours of the morning. But it took many times of doing this for me to wake up and see the view from the highway. One day, I looked afar and saw white and red lights, in […]
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Swine flu: Can I panic yet?
Way back in April I did an article on the flu pandemic which broke out in 1918 and then went on to decimate this planet in numbers that not even World War II could match. My point at the time being that I found it strange that every pupil learns about World War I in […]
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Creation vs Evolution
Like most kids, I did my time at Sunday school. Getting picked up in the church Kombi, singing, clapping, drinking Oros and eating Marie biscuits. I even played sheep number three in the nativity play. A really hot costume in the Durban summer. And of course I learnt the story of how God made the […]
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Sour grapes: Kaka threatens to leave Madrid after being ‘upstaged’
In a surprising twist to the story that happens every year during the transfer window, not all is well at the Santiago Bernabeu. Real Madrid, flush with fresh and expensively shipped-in talent, have a simmering team crisis on their hands … and the season hasn’t even started yet. With the arrival of Ronaldo to the […]
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We must scrap the prohibition of prostitution
We must scrap the prohibition of prostitution, because it unfairly discriminates against women who demand their money upfront. We all, as stupid men, have had cause in our lives to wonder why the state of gender parity has changed so that women are now equal but such that the demands made by women upon men […]
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Do you also have a dodgy cop story?
I recently visited Botswana where I was driving a friend’s 4×4 for our annual trans-Kalahari trip. On the return through the Lobatse border post I was asked for a bribe, albeit indirectly. I have done this trip about five times now with some deviation and in reverse direction. The route runs from Durban to Kimberley […]