The sad discovery of a dead baby in a school bag should bring it home to all of us how scared young women are to talk about sex, sexuality and pregnancy. And perhaps it also shows how poor our tactics of talking to them have been. The Oprah school saga is only one fragment of […]
2011
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We need a reserve league, urgently!
The way our junior national team coaches struggle to get the players they need is a disgrace. It shows how ignorant this country is when it comes to development. It’s stupid to expect any degree of success from the senior national team when the youth teams are ignored. The best football nations in the world […]
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Who wants to hire the celeb?
By Benedict Matjiu After months of worn-out adverts punting soccer deals, owners of companies doing own voice-overs and endless tweets of self-promotion, I find myself asking has “underground” become the new above-the-line? Noah (CEO of Cell C), Eugene Khoza (Mr Nedbank), Kagiso Lediga (CEO of Nando’s). The big names in South African comedy are really […]
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Social media no longer on business fringe
By Dominique Pienaar Social networks, blogs and virtual worlds are no longer on the fringe — they are very real factors that can influence the perception of companies large and small. Customers, partners and competitors are openly and frankly engaged in these channels, and these discussions are occurring completely outside the control of the companies […]
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We have become cowards
Something in the character of South Africans is dying. Something in many of us has died and it is called courage. We have become cowards. I guess I should be speaking for myself since I have no mandate to speak for everybody, whoever that is but I insist on using the royal “we” and I […]
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No show from ANC
By Glenda Daniels Guess what? The ANC has not shown up for any of the Press Council review public hearings held so far this month. And yet, it is the ANC, more than any other organisation in the country, which is unhappy about the independent and critical South African press. Last year there was heated […]
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Chiefs to test Bucs’ resilience
Orlando Pirates will go to their much anticipated game against Kaizer Chiefs with their spirits high after a brilliant run of 13 games unbeaten and the number-one spot in the league. But the back-to-back defeats against their arch-rivals will still be fresh in their minds. This game will be a humdinger and definitely a match […]
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Christians, gays equally hypocritical
By Cynthia Ayeza Mutabaazi A gay activist was recently murdered in Uganda, my home country. A bit of hell broke loose in the international community and two weeks or so later, life goes on. This is our sad reality. I highly doubt that he was murdered because he was gay. But I do not have […]
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The Graeme Smith legacy
As the circus that is World Cup comes to life in the subcontinent, a significant moment is upon South African cricket. Yes, the Proteas have headed eastward in effort to slay the ghost of Headingley past, but this will also be Graeme Smith’s last ODI adventure as captain of the side. Just yesterday he was […]
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The United States of Africa: A dream reborn
The eventual ousting of Moammar Gadaffi, counter-intuitively, has the potential to bring the African continent one step closer to the tyrannical despot’s long pursued pet project of a United States of Africa. In stark contrast to the personal monopoly over power illegitimately accrued by Gadaffi and his cohort of African heads of government, a federation […]
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Postmodernism and legal education
In 1997 a man by the name of Dennis Arrow published an assemblage of more than 200 pages of text in the Michigan Law Review under the title “Pomobabble: Postmodern Newspeak and Constitutional ‘Meaning’ for the Uninitiated”. Although the text claimed to be defining postmodernism and legal postmodernist jargon, it did everything but that. Instead, […]
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Yohann Gene wins Stage 3
Stage 3 — 171km — Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium to Summerstrand Port Elizabeth lived up to its name as the “Windy City” when it hosted Stage 3 of the Cell C Tour of South Africa. Following Monday’s rest day, the stage started in earnest at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, before finishing 171 kilometres later, […]