Siyabonga Ntshingila

News Corp, whose founder Rupert Murdoch has for some time been railing at freely available online news has now announced that it will be teaming up with Microsoft in its fight against free news providers, specifically Google. How this is going to pan out is that “little piece of code in each article would make […]

“A voice cries out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!’ ” — Somewhere in the Good Book. The Mayans said the world would end in 2012 and we laughed them off. Then we started having all these fulfilments of end-of-days scenarios. All manner of evil upon the land; skinny […]

Wian du Preez 7 — Good, solid if unspectacular debut. Welcome onboard son. Good to have a sound alternative to Beast. Adriaan Strauss 7 — Again. Solid, no fireworks, but not much wrong either. Also handy to have when Bismarck needs a rest. They are doing some seriously good work in the Free State with […]

Hugh Hefner and Rupert Murdoch suffering from the same headache. Who’d have thunk it? The internet age is posing a massive problem for these two icons of the golden age of capitalism. On the one hand Murdoch is railing and threatening a clampdown on free online consumption of news from his expensively acquired outlets arguing […]

Julius Malema has come out against the Young Communist League and vowed to do his utmost to defend former president Mbeki against any legal action over his HIV-Aids utterances. And in other news, a herd of pigs were seen executing formations in the air above the Union Buildings while over in the Middle East Ahmadinejad […]

Fatigue It has been a long season. And it showed. PdV and the provincial coaches need to sit down and work out a schedule per player on how the Bok 22 will be managed next year. I agree with him that international rugby is not the arena in which you rest players. It is the […]

The front row — 5 Failed to consistently front up as a unit. Beast and Bismarck are tired and to be very frank have not been at their best for a while now. They were near invisible in the loose. Smittie didn’t play any worse than he has this year, but the Boks could have […]

Why the fecking hell are Saru continuing to allow themselves to be bullied by Aus in the Sanzar alliance? It makes absolutely no sense at all from any angle. New Zealand has 145 472 players registered with its 26 (mainly marginal) unions. Australia has roughly 150 000 in a good year. South Africa is blessed with about […]

Two Mitchells Plain CPF members gunned down and the community vows to keep on fighting crime. Imagine, if you will, that communities all over followed this example. That being, instead of moaning and bitching about Malema, ministerial cars, police being given the green light for deadly force, construction of WIDER roads, people decided to take […]

1. Glenn Agliotti — best exponent of the in-box own goal ever? 2. Am I the only who finds the thought of two grown men walking around Sandton City buying each other clothes and accessories just a tad erm … otherwise? 3. In light of the Hans van Dyk “Hannibal Lecter of Ellis Park” incident, […]

The Sharks and Western “Problems” are in. The Bulls are a shoo-in and Griquas should be able to do enough to make it. I’m backing Griquas over the Cheetahs because with the Sharks needing a full house of points, the game is surely to open up and Griquas should be able to get the bonus […]

With the current brouhaha over potential revisions to South Africa’s abortion laws, and in light of recent events in England and elsewhere in Europe, maybe it’s time we in South Africa revisited our national stance on another contentious issue, that of assisted suicide/euthanasia. Certainly it is a controversial and an emotional subject. But like gay […]