Only South Africans would, faced with the prospect of having two genuine world-class pivot prospects, seek to align among provincial lines and do their utmost to tear them down week in week out. I am talking here of Pat Lambie of the Sharks and Elton Jantjies of the Lions. Ex-teammates at age group level, now […]
Siyabonga Ntshingila
Siyabonga Ntshingila is a walking example of how not to go through life productively.
Having been chanced his lackadaisical way through an education at one of the country's finest boys schools and a noted university, he then proceeded to unleash his special brand of inertia on the unsuspecting corporate world.
Alas, as with all things in life, the scam could not go on forever, and like a deVaselined Ananias Mathe reality caught up with him and he is now (thanks to the undue influence of his beloved) making a living as a freelance writer and a sub-editor for Newstime.
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When do the Proteas get ‘to pick themselves up’ then?
“We have to pick ourselves up. We haven’t become bad players because of one performance. We’ll have to work on our decision making.” — Graeme Smith, January 15 2011. “We’ve got to learn from today, pick ourselves up.” — Graeme Smith March 6 2011. Urm, yeah. Because that is an all new lesson which needed […]
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Timing of Manyi outrage suspicious
Much has been made of the scathing letter addressed to Black Management Forum leader Jimmy Manyi by Trevor Manuel, the minister of national planning. Noted academic and analyst Adam Habib surmised as much yesterday saying “strategic calculations are being made about the Western Cape. I cannot imagine that he has not consulted widely on this […]
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Liverpool and Everton need to suck it up and share a ground
Explain this to me, Inter Milan and AC Milan, with their combined history of success and passion and pride, are more than happy to share a ground and stadium identity, but Liverpool and Everton cannot find an easy way to do this? Why? On its own, the argument about history and identity is a powerful […]
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When do we start owning our true character?
South Africans, well most of us anyway, say we see former president Nelson Mandela as a symbol of dignity, pride, measure and humility. Which of course is why when the great statesman was in hospital last week, we were egging on the media vultures who hovered at the hospital hoping to pick up and sensationalise […]
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Let them eat sushi
The current brouhaha about Kenny Kunene and his (probable) preference for hot women and sushi is another example of the narrow and sensationalist reporting and debate that plagues so much of our discourse. I personally do not give a rat’s ass where and how Kunene likes his raw fish and seaweed served. If he is […]
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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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Is our history now hate speech?
In South Africa it is legal, though frowned upon, to raise the old flag. Die Stem is part of the national anthem. Yet songs about the all-too-recent struggle are now hate speech. Makes no sense does it. Unless one is prepared to accept that black people are some kind of mindless, easily excitable rabble which […]
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National Freedom Party headed straight for the scrapheap of SA politics
“The fact of the matter is we will never regain the relationship we had with the IFP leaders and it’s time for us to move forward ” — Victoria Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, January 17 2011. If reports are to be believed, those words signalled an intention by the embittered and isolated, though massively popular, IFP national […]
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Imran Tahir: A chance at a new start
Finally, all the paperwork and red tape has been cleared and Imran Tahir is set to be a Protea. This is big news. Why so, you may ask? Because why, as hulle se op die Oos Rand, his international career presents a challenge, not only to himself to justify the hype, but also to the […]
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Back to the daily grind…even for dumb criminals
It would seem even the dumb criminal fraternity is geared towards starting off the new year on a productive note. Just this week there have been two incidents of crime which have made a strong bid for the 2011 Dumbest Crime/Criminal of the Year Award — award to be presented by M Trapido at a […]
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PC brigade’s reign of terror goes too far
So in 2011 you cannot beat your kid, cannot speak frankly to another adult, even if they consent to it, cannot compliment a female colleague, or even solicit sartorial advice from a gay colleague. Why? Because why (as they say in the die Oss Rand) we have allowed the PC brigade to dictate our lives, […]