As a result of the growing media pressure surrounding ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s lifestyle audit a press conference was scheduled for Tuesday in order to afford his attorney, Tumi Mokwena, the opportunity of clearing up some of the issues. At the media briefing Mokwena stated that while Malema was still registered as a […]
2010
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Why should we accept Zuma’s flaws?
Professor Sipho Seepe’s recent article in the Sowetan that morals are not necessary for leadership in politics must rank as his poorest contribution to national debate yet, obviously blinded by his well-known support for Zuma’s ascension to power. What is comforting though is that he is not even being supported by the man he is […]
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SA rugby media bias: Fact or fiction?
I’ve only been involved with professional rugby journalism for just over a year, and one of the urban legends that I’ve picked up on my travels is that there is a bubbling (nothing too discernable) feeling from a section of rugby followers that media coverage in South Africa is biased in favour of certain teams, […]
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Microsoft in 2010…
Microsoft is one of those companies that always seems to carry the weight of the computing world — and rightly so. If you think of any area within computing, MS somehow has a finger in the pie. In some areas of course, they are the pie. Credit has to be given to Microsoft’s improvement in […]
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Wanted: Busty blonde for leadership position
You know it’s been a slow day in the news world when Lynda Odendaal joining the ANC is a main story on the evening news. The former Cope second deputy president and lead organiser of a new independent civil-society initiative announced she had joined the ANC amid fanfare and a formal press conference. “Comrade Lynda” […]
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Tenderpreneur explained II
Due to what appears to be a desire to bridge (which in itself means never having to shake hands — English translation) the communications gap some of you have requested that further terms, phrases and personalities, unique to South Africa, be translated into language that everyone can understand. Accordingly herewith : PART II Malema shall […]
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J K Rowling owes me big time
“Jewish author’s estate accuses Rowling of plagiarism” was one of the featured stories in today’s Jewish Telegraph Agency bulletin. According to this, Rowling got her ideas from a 1987 book by Adrian Jacobs (since deceased) entitled The Adventures of Willy the Wizard: No. 1 Livid Land. This is not the first time certain people have […]
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From Zen to Zef (in one short drive to Kraaifontein)
Here is a transcript of an actual conversation I recently had with my Higher Self. Me: Hey, did you know we have a sex therapy clinic in South Africa? Higher Self: A sex therapy clinic? What on earth for? Me: Didn’t you know? A sex therapy clinic is a hospital where people go to be […]
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Finding solutions
The Rubik’s cube is one of those puzzles that many people want to throw against the wall. It seems solution-less, until someone comes along and shows you how to do it. Have you ever faced a problem and had no idea how to solve it? One of those things you feel completely overwhelmed by and […]
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Here Be Squalls: Navigating ANCYL dullard-speak
Why do people hate Julius Malema so? I’m honestly perplexed. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I don’t love him. Do you see me in a JZ shirt, baying out mshini wami outside the ‘Maritzburg High Court, sweat dripping from beneath my Dickies taxi-boy keppie, scuffed ankles and once-white All Stars straining as I give the […]
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Cool river? Cool guy! A tribute to Steve
The hall was full of what Archbishop Tutu would have called, the rainbow people of God. The air was filled with pain mixed with faith mixed with gratitude mixed with extraordinary hope. There was deep mourning and much open weeping. Occasionally, the sombre mood was punctuated with brief nervous bouts of defiant laughter. Spirit-lifting songs, […]
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The rise and rise of the president’s right hand
[Update: The Press Council’s deputy press ombudsman, Johan Retief, found in Lakela Kaunda’s favour regarding a July 7 2010 article the Times published titled “Kaunda wins battle in the presidency – Zuma’s top aide tightens her hold as two more key officials prepare to leave”. The ombudsman stated that Kaunda had complained that “the story […]