We’ve all seen those videos on the news where Osama bin Laden speaks, delivering messages about blowing stuff up, the evilness of this or that person, calling this nation or that nation the scourge of the planet and threatening them with a painful death and imminent destruction. The ones that really set his place in […]
David J Smith
David Smith is a world famous artist and a British Olympic hammer thrower. He is a curler for Scotland and Manitoba. A pro wrestler fondly known as the British Bulldog. A Canadian economist and a Mormon missionary they call the Sweet Singer of Israel. He is a British historian and a bishop. David Smith is the biographer of HG Wells, a professor of physics, a composer and a music teacher at Yale. He played rugby for Samoa, England and New Zealand. He created the Melissa worm, a deadly computer virus. He is the Guardian's man in Africa, he starred in a reality TV show and shot his way to silver in the 600m military rifle prone position at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.
But this isn't that David Smith. This is the blog of the other David Smith. David J Smith. The one from Durban by the Sea. The one who lives in Amsterdam. Yes, him. The David Smith who likes to write about himself in the third person.
To learn about all the other David Smiths:
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Viva Dirtbin!
There’s this turf war going on. Cape Town versus Durban. Peeps are getting fired up, calling each other out and throwing down with the insults, the stereotypes and the cliches. Getting red in the face, tapping away on keyboards, ringing up the papers. Claiming this place is a dump or that place is a shithole. […]
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And tonight’s winner is…the American dream
“The Merchant of Death is Dead”. As the legend goes that is the headline that changed Dr Alfred Nobel’s life. When a French newspaper prematurely published his obituary, the good doctor was confronted with a vision of how the world would remember him. As the purveyor of the finest instruments of mayhem and murder. The […]
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We are the crime capital of the world, right?
Around the world there is a time-honoured tradition that whenever a South African émigré is dining with foreigners, he will be called upon to regale his dinner companions with talk of his crime-ridden homeland. When the candle has burnt low and the dinner is all but eat and the soul fortified with a suitable red, […]
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Is China really our BFF?
Africa has a new BFF. China. Across the continent everyone seems to be loving them. They have quickly become our superbro in the world of economics. A destination for our exports. And the supplier of all our needs from white tees to blue jeans to cheap guns. The new meme on the street seems to […]
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Why, oh why, do we like to be abused?
What is it about human nature that when people treat us bad we like them more? That when we get abused, we go back slavishly looking for seconds? It seems we have been hardwired to like the hand that beats us. To run after the thing that rejects us. It’s like that old Groucho Marx […]
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Isn’t it time to legalise the zol?
No, I am not a zol monkey. This is not a throwdown from a bonghead. I am not tapping away on my keyboard in a cloud of purple haze. This will not be a THC-fueled rant about the wonders of pot, the miracle of ganja and the salvation you will find in the herb. I […]
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SA: The world champion of race carding
The sport of race carding has always been popular in South Africa. From the early days of Dutch settlement until now, the sport has thrived in our country. We have produced some of the world’s finest race carders. From great amateurs like Adam Kok and Totius to one of the world’s first professional race carders, […]
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We need the A-Team!
Hold the phone! Simmer down with all the talk about drunk judges, substandard matrics and presidential links to the Rhema Church. Something important is coming through on the wire. A South African is to play “Howling Mad” Murdock in the new A-Team! Sharlto Copley of District 9 fame has been given the nod. He will […]
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Commies in Beemers
If I were to say to you, there is nothing worse than a hypocrite, I would be writing off 99% of the human race. What we say and what we do rarely match up. When Giovanni Boccaccio in 1350 first penned those much quoted words, do as we say, not as we do, he really […]
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Keep the drunk judge
A lot of people have been calling for his honour Judge Nkola Motata to hit the road (rather than the fence this time). But I don’t agree. He has to stay. In fact we need more judges like him. No more of these hoity-toity men sitting up high in their robes, casting down their sombre […]
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Huntley, Paris Hilton’s dog and the awesome world we live in
The world is awesome. There are a million cool things to every bad thing. Like this giant rat they found in Papua New Guinea. It is 82cm long. It’s way bigger than a cat and most dogs for that matter. And it looks like a complete mate. It just sits there and lets the TV […]