Quite often one hears the argument that this or that technology may work wonders elsewhere, “just not in my company or industry”. The problem, one hears, is that “we’re too boring for Facebook”, that “our customers aren’t mobile and print their emails” or that “we can’t afford the computing infrastructure”. Increasingly, these arguments are losing […]
2011
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An evening at the Australian Open
Grand Slam. These two words are the most important a professional tennis player will hear in his or her respective career. It is the height of achievement in the tennis world where being a Grand Slam champion means your name is written into the folklore of the sport (and big endorsement deals perhaps). Four are […]
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American corporations set Tunisia and Egypt free
If the digital punters out there are to be believed, it is the power of some corporates in California that is setting the Arab world free. It is the venture capitalists, the CEOs, the boardroom visionaries of Palo Alto that are to be thanked for the groundswell we are seeing in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and […]
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Egypt: Just about time for a revolution?
In a recent BBC interview, the famed author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens stated that despite his past disillusionment with some within the British left, he still closely identified with left-wing humanist values. In particular a belief or advocacy of the Marxian “dialectic” and the universal notions of freedom and autonomy upon which it is predicated. […]
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Time for Teko to step up
Teko Modise has put all the drama and speculation behind him and signed for Mamelodi Sundowns. He joins a Sundowns’ side where competition for a place in the starting line-up is very high, just like at his former club, Orlando Pirates. The big question is whether Modise will be able to cope with the pressure […]
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King Kenny sobers up to new Liverpool reality
So King Kenny goes back to Anfield and gees up the troops to pull fingers from Scouse (and international) arse and get going. And what happens next? Chelsea reminds them of their place in the 2011 pecking order. A cheeky cash up-front offer for their best player and talisman. Sure they’ve rejected it, but Chelsea […]
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Spare us from the tyranny of lists
Oh, spare us from the tyranny of lists. Is this what the sum of human knowledge has been reduced to? Is sorting what we have to say into discrete packets of information the only way ensure that you will be read? Quite possibly; after all, that’s why I’m guilty of doing the same thing myself. […]
Posted inLifestyle
A reason to get on my bike
“Were you smoking something this weekend? Because whatever you’ve got …” My new colleague lunged towards my face, forcing up my Wayfarers to peer into my glazed eyeballs. “Look at his eyes. I want some of that,” she said to her companion. Dark rings. Bloodshot. Vacant. I’d been peacefully sauntering up Long Street, fixated on my […]
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The picture of life painted by death
It is our differing deaths in a developing country and a mature economy that paint the starkest picture of how life in different nations compares.
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For heaven’s sake, leave Mandela alone
By Tim Fish South Africans are melodramatic. We celebrate our successes with exceptional vigour. Think of the TshabalaIa goal celebration against Mexico or Bafana Bafana’s victory against France in the World Cup. On this end of the spectrum the melodrama is to be admired and embraced. It is good to celebrate victories. It is unifying. […]
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Don’t gamble away SA’s future
It really takes a lot of chutzpah to be part of the politically connected few with privileges. The audacity that we see in the conduct, lack of accountability, total disregard for the law and lack of realisation that the culture and odious behaviour they exhibit is breeding a sub-culture that is eating away at the […]
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Me and Nelson Mandela
I love to cook and so there came a point during the struggle, where I gave up full-time journalism, became a full-time activist, part of the underground, and after long, endless meetings, would cook for strugglistas. Murphy Morobe loved my veal Marengo, Cyril Ramaphosa would call at 11pm after going to mines and speaking to […]