Generally, this would sound like a good thing if you’re a cheapskate or skint, but when an event organiser tells you this — after you’ve set up all your gear at a venue — it’s a bit disturbing. Now, we all like a bit of professionalism when we do our jobs. That’s why contracts and […]
2010
Posted inBusiness
Light at the end of the economic tunnel
Warren Buffet is rumoured to have said that it is only when the tide goes out that you discover who has been swimming naked. When I first heard of the quotation and its source, I found this to be a contradiction in terms, especially because Buffet is on record saying that while other men read […]
Posted inLifestyle
Food for thought
So there are certain things that we natives have learned from the coming of the civilised. Well, I will not say learned, but rather cultivated to certain systems. This cultivation is particularly rife when it comes to our food. Why do you think people have subjected themselves to the consumption of raw fish eggs and […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Zuma is part of the problem
JZ has now put 20 candles on the cake of his loins. Twenty kids, five wives (or are there more yet?) and a whole lot of polygamous loving going on (wife or not). He very obviously has multiple wives, but he also has multiple partners — the latest baby’s mother was not married to him […]
Posted inGeneral
Back in South Africa…
Having been outside South Africa for ten days, I found myself playing a silly game as I re-entered the territory of Afrika Dzonga. How do you know that you are back in South Africa? You know you are back in South Africa when you switch on your radio and you hear episode 901 of Julius […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Is Zuma’s sex drive out of control?
Though many South Africans are of the view that polygamy is a lifestyle choice that is best left to those who decide to adopt it, the news that South African President Jacob Zuma has also fathered a child with Orlando Pirates owner Irvin Khoza’s daughter, may not sit quite as well. The president is now […]
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If there is a god, I don’t want to spend eternity with him
My mom’s best friend had a really tough year in 2009, and it had nothing to do with the financial crisis. Her husband was dying of cancer. It was a long, slow and painful death; not something anyone should go through, but unfortunately one that many do. Anyway, on Thursday, after a year of caring […]
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Why is Randburg so depressing?
I don’t know about you, but I find Randburg profoundly depressing. I am not entirely sure why, though I suspect that the reasons are rooted in my childhood. Here’s a thing about Joburg geography. If, like me, you grew up in Sandton (and, even worse, Bryanston, with its intellectually flaccid, waspish assumptions about its own […]
Posted inNews/Politics
No need to banish the watchdog, just let it starve
The Independent Complaints Directorate has joined an array of Chapter Nine oversight institutions set up to secure SA’s new democracy, but which have subsided into ennui because the government has absolutely no intention of being constrained.
Posted inGeneral
Make the irresponsible accountable
South Africa is experiencing an epidemic of reckless behaviour where the thoughtless, careless and irresponsible are getting away with too much.
Posted inLifestyle
The seven highly annoying habits of boardroom prawns
A meme that has been doing the rounds, where rude and obnoxious cyclists are insultingly called prawns. You know the type, they walk into the café while still wearing their cycling helmets and shoes, the salt from their evaporated sweat powdering their neck and shaven calves. I approve. Life is littered with prawns, and all […]
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Male sexual prowess, being jobless and…tequila!
So ol’ Joe falls sideways on the bed after the most marvellous sex and sighs. His lady companion Roxanne asks him, “Do you still smoke after having sex?” Joe’s eyes twinkle and he gives Roxanne a crinkly, mischievous grin while he lies there with his arms behind his head. “I don’t know. I’ve never looked.” […]