Since first we dragged our wet, half-baked selves from the primordial soup — limp croutons tired of swimming — and pulled air into our hard-won lungs, humans have worshipped food. Whether as a simple set of sugars, proteins and amino acids that allow our metabolic engine to go about the business of combustion, or the […]
2011
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Why I won’t be at Slutwalk
Nechama Brodie’s column left me cold, fuming and insulted, and that’s the version without the French. I followed her conversation with a few people on Twitter on Sunday and already expected an understandably defensive argument. I did not, however, expect her to equate disagreement with “a stranger groping my breasts in a club, because I […]
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World Cup victory or not, De Villiers should go
The Springboks received a healthy dose of confidence after winning their last Tri-Nations fixture against a weakened All Blacks in Port Elizabeth. Having shaken off the evident rust against Australia the week before, South Africa went back to what they know best by playing it tight and using Morne Steyn’s boot to keep the scoreboard […]
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‘Calling it Slutwalk has made it the success it is’
By Mvelase Peppetta When Canadian police officer Michael Sanguinetti said “don’t dress like a slut”, he’d made a huge mistake. In fact he’d touched that rock the women who’d made their way up to the Union Buildings in 1956 had warned against. Sanguinetti’s words, uttered a few months ago when giving university students safety tips, […]
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A win, we’ll take it!
The faithful will be ecstatic, the doubters unconvinced as the Springboks retained their record of never having lost to the All Blacks in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. It was 41 years since Dawie de Villiers’s Springbok team smashed All Black dreams on the unyielding ground at Boet Erasmus, but I am sure that Hannes Marais, […]
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Coming out of the granny closet
Today I had a powerful flashback to the single most awful, humiliating moment in the entire awful, humiliating process that was the implosion of my life after I was retrenched from my job in Sydney in November 2008. It was at a dinner party more than a year ago. We were about to pile into […]
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Why the Constitution, chief justice is vital to the masses
The comments currently surrounding the appointment of the next chief justice and the value of the Constitution to our masses demonstrates the need for an explanation on both. We need to lay to rest the misconception that some would have us believe ie that the Constitution was some sort of a sell out to the […]
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Of securocrats, candles and a raging dictatorship
There is a story of a candle that caused a conflagration which incinerated a celebrated war hero in a house that could well have been fire-proof. It is a story full of intrigue. It is a story that over the past week has been told in hushed tones; a story that delves into the macabre […]
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RWC: Love it when a plan comes together
A while ago and a few times on air I have said that I believe the Australian rugby team looks perfectly poised to rob the Rugby World Cup from the favourites and hosts, the New Zealand All Blacks. I have, at the same time, also felt much contempt for those who have placed immense emphasis […]
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Adolf und Julius: The funny side of Malema
Of course, Julius is not Adolf and Jacob Zuma is not German President Paul von Hindenburg, although tempting analogies could be drawn with Hindenburg’s fatal pliability at the hands of Hitler.
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The sustainability farce
By Mark Peach Sustainability in a developing country should surely be concerned with more than recycling, nature preservation, endangered species and sources of energy. Important as these are, they are almost irrelevant to people barely living and in horrific conditions. Yet many in the sustainability industry moan that they are unable to “engage” the poor […]
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COP17: Business, govt must work together
By Bjorn Stigson An important topic for discussion during my recent South Africa trip was the17th Conference of Parties (COP17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is being hosted in Durban this year. COP 17 is important in order to steer a course towards a sustainable world. But scepticism surrounds […]