The other day, while checking the news on the Sydney Morning Herald website, I happened across this story. It’s about how a spectacularly tasteless Greek wedding in Sydney, spread to Facebook and then across the world, passed on by those of us who treasure chav* culture in all its rich and varied forms. Have a […]
2009
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Did Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni do the right thing in not cutting interest rates?
This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Did Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni do the right thing in not cutting interest rates?
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Could Twitter be a tool for nation-building?
The other night, as I checked up the news on Twitter and added a tweet of my own (from which David Bullard has mercifully been shielded) something struck me. So many of the people I follow on Twitter had made comments about the Bafana Bafana/Brazil match. There was a real sense of shared experience, of […]
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China blocks internet: We want our soft porn
I want it all and I want it now — Freddie Mercury China’s rationale for introducing built-in software to filter out porn sites is definitely candy coating, says this man on the ground in Shanghai. Government policy states it is to protect people, especially minors, from viewing porn? That’s horse manure buzzing with blue-bottle flies. […]
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Let Michael Jackson finally rest in peace
At 02h00 this morning I filed an article on the Sentinel site confirming that Michael Jackson had died. It’s now about 02h05 and I can’t sleep. Watching Sky News I can already see that there are going to be a billion conspiracy theories and the whole family including his young children are going to be […]
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Bafana were brilliant now reinstate Mokoena SABC
As you will see from the match report below I was of the firm belief that Bafana Bafana were absolutely magnificent against Brazil last night and are now as much a source of pride to the nation as our cricket and rugby teams. There is no doubt that Joel Santana has achieved this and with […]
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Do you find the Vodacom meerkat sexy?
The way that cellphone-selling meerkat jives around, strutting its ass in a provocative way kind of reminds me of the dancing baby from Ally McBeal — and if I find 14 other people to agree with me and lodge a petition then we can sink the bastard. A similar logic plagued a verdict by the […]
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Does this qualify as a personality disorder?
I often wake up in the morning and wonder about my two lives. During the pay-the-mortgage week I work a nine-to-whenever, tied to my laptop and a series of meetings that remind me of ping pong: we debate the same issues, have wild inspirations and great ideas, but never come to a conclusion. But then […]
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So … you done some ‘dicky measuring’ lately?
I am convinced some men buy large, expensive cars to make up for a certain lack in the groin area, or for a lack of performance in that area. (Perhaps it’s only perceived, like “ooh, I’m grossly overweight” among anorexic women.) And before the era of the automobile one of the compensations used to be […]
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Repatri(h)ate?
October 2002, KwaZulu-Natal Parliament, Pietermaritzburg, Comrade Bheki Cele (chair of chairs) in and from the speaker’s chair: ” … the problem is that some of us (looking to the ANC) came into politics to help the people and to do the work in building a better life for all … but some people in this […]
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N Korea threatens US; missile launch anticipated
Days after US President Barack Obama advised the media that America was prepared for anything that Pyongyang could throw at it comes war talk from the government of North Korea. “North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a […]
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Top 20 rugby quotes of the week
1. “They are banged up enough without me giving them a ‘snorter’ on the scrum machine.” Graham Rowntree — British & Irish Lions scrumming coach 2. “The Beast was pretty impressive. There was one scrum after nine minutes when we got lifted off the floor and if I was their scrum coach I would have […]