Ever the self-righteous optimist, I was up at 6am on Boxing Day for the first of many runs along the glorious stretch of coastline that runs from Sea Point to Clifton and beyond. But I was not the only person to hit the Atlantic Seaboard early that morning. By 6.30am, when I finally got moving, […]
Jonathan Berger
Jonathan Berger is a lawyer by training and a troublemaker by profession.
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Planet Huckabee
It’s a slippery slope. First, you change the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. Then, before you know it, you’re seeing marriages between “a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal”. Welcome to Planet Huckabee, the perfect antidote to Eskom-induced depression, where one does not even need to […]
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Parliamentary pornography
Sjoe, but I’m dizzy! After spending some time tracking down the latest set of amendments to our sexual offences laws — the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act — I made a serious mistake: I started to read it. It had taken me a while to find the document because it has […]
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(One of) my best friends’ (gay) wedding
I am excited. Having been part of the crowd that brought you same-sex marriage, I get to attend my very first civil union ceremony in early January. But not only that, I also get to organise a bachelor’s party. To be frank, I haven’t a clue what to do. Does one follow “tradition” — drunken […]
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Cut or uncut?
Call it religious chauvinism, or perhaps just good taste, but I’ve always preferred cut. Granted, I lost my foreskin more than 40 years ago, presumably at a catered function where I cried (as did my mother) and everyone else chased mouthfuls of chopped liver with cola tonic and lemonade. Since then, I have not spent […]