2010

By Dr Pieter Streicher The fall-out from the ban of bulk SMS in India serves as a dramatic reminder about just how entrenched those 160 characters have become in the daily lives of both people and businesses the world over. When the Indian government banned application-to-person SMS messaging, people immediately stopped receiving notifications that transactions […]

By Matthew Tagg Figures from the IDC show that piracy went up a percentage point in SA between 2007 and 2008 — amounting to R3.1 billion in industry losses. While many people justifiably bemoan the spiralling piracy rates occurring across the world, it’s unlikely that we will see any changes in the numbers without a radical […]

As always I’ve been reading columnists from around the world and came across two lads bitching about pretty much the same thing. Firstly our own Dave Bullard who calls political correctness the curse of the chattering classes while Mark Steyn — who writes for far too many publications to mention here — was going on […]

I don’t think being rescued after nine weeks underground with 32 friends from work makes you a hero. I once spent an entire long weekend holed up in a beach house in Hermanus with 10 buddies and no one called us heroes when we got home. This is what men do — we try to […]

“If music be the food of love, play on!” With these opening words of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare captured an essential bond between two things without which no human being should have to do, but — at least in the case of the latter — many people regrettably often have to do without. Nietzsche once observed […]

By Nomfundo Walaza I first questioned the notion of “keeping the peace” several years ago while I was still practising as a psychologist. A refugee girl, who was sexually abused by her adoptive parent, was referred to me for counselling. She believed that her adoptive “mother” knew, about the abuse, but did not want to […]