It was the most awesome T-shirt I had ever seen. A funky deep purple dye and a cartoon of a drunken cat on the front. Thirteen years old, I stared at in gobsmacked delight. Gimme! The cat was all starry-eyed with a wasted grin on his face and he was lying inside a whiskey bottle. […]
2010
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Whose 2010 is it anyway?
Usually, when the sandman fails to make his nightly visits (which is a frequent occurrence in my world), I kill time in the early morning hours by either reading or writing. However, having recently finished reading the rather unimaginative seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia there is hardly anything of interest on my bookshelf. This is perhaps […]
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Storming the castle
I will not say how and when I came to understand the logic of amber-economics and neither will I divulge the name of the individual who so graciously introduced me to the illicitness of underage lager drinking, but I will say that beer makes the world go round. And that if you’re unlucky enough to […]
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The lessons the English have taught us…
The holiday season has come to an end, and while most people take time off and enjoy this time of family, presents and often boozing at the office Christmas party, there has been one sour note that continues to needle me as I sit in front of my computer, not working (right now anyways…don’t tell […]
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And the winner is…
Some say the ANC’s annual January statement read out by the president on Saturday was long and boring. What kind of assessment is that? Where were these people when brother Moammar Gadaffi caused his own interpreter to collapse with exhaustion after speaking for 94 minutes at the UN last September? And what about the young […]
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The great white heard my heartbeat
A large ominous shadow loomed about two metres away. Then a roll and the distinct white belly. I was in striking distance of man’s most feared predator. How, you might ask, did I — not known among my friends and foes for a love of danger — end up there? After a sprightly 5am pick-up […]
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Cope must be the change it wants to see in society
Enough has been said about how the first year of Cope’s existence has been a rough ride characterised by a mix of leadership difficulties as well as a sense of disorganisation at both administrative, strategic and policy levels. So how should Cope fix these obvious impediments that have made its founding year an overall disappointment […]
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Zuma angles for a World Cup-starring role
Last year was a grim one for the country, although South Africa’s irrepressibly genial president appeared not to notice. So for the government to view the Soccer World Cup as 2010’s miracle cure-for-all national ills is a little naive. President Jacob Zuma hopes that the World Cup will somehow deliver the magical bonanza that will […]
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A multifaceted mirror for individuals (2)
In my previous post, I reconstructed Kierkegaard’s aesthetic model for existence briefly, pointing out the implications this way of living has for human relationships and for one’s sense of identity. This is not unproblematic, of course. Hence the rejoinder, on Kierkegaard’s part, to the implicit claims made by the pseudonymous A in praise of the […]
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Angola were negligent in allowing Togo team bus into Cabinda
Innocent Togo footballers were made to pay a heavy price for Angola’s lack of foresight when their team bus came under attack in Cabinda on Friday. While Manchester City’s Emmanuel Adebayor emerged unharmed, two players were among the nine injured and the driver was killed. The team bus, as it crossed the border from the […]
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Doctor, doctor
By T Osiame Molefe Hello…my name is Osiame and I am a self-diagnosed chronic cyberchondriac. *Pause for group reply* It has been a day since I googled my last set of symptoms. Needless to say, despite the radiating headache and short-term memory loss, I discovered that I do not suffer from encephalitis as I self-diagnosed. […]
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His majesty, the king, your president
Friends, brothers, sisters, foreign nationals, national nationals, multi-nationals, my fellow South Africans; all protocol observed! It is with a double sense of worry and relief that I write to all of you. On the sixth day of the first month of the two thousandth and tenth year of our Lord, at about fourteen hundred hours, […]