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The excellent Moses Mabhida Stadium in KwaZulu-Natal will host the Original Soweto derby on Saturday when Orlando Pirates take on Moroka Swallows in the MTN8 final. Orlando Pirates are determined to be the last team standing when the final whistle blows to end what is expected to be an exciting final on Saturday between two […]

In her incisive book, Choice (2010) Renata Salecl — colleague of redoubtable philosopher and psychoanalytical theorist, Slavoj Zizek, and a formidable thinker in her own right — probes what she calls the “tyranny of choice” in the present era. Everywhere we turn in our capitalist society (which thrives on variety), we are confronted by a […]

I’m at the tattoo parlour, mulling over why the baby didn’t make it. It crosses my mind, all things considered, that it’s because there is a God, and not because there isn’t one. The man finishing off is large and parades his tribal lines as if they’re his. Paris Hilton has adopted 20 rabbits. They […]

At the beginning of the “Tender Revolution” when BEE became fashionable, many previously disadvantaged black folks scrambled to set up companies in their quest to emancipate themselves from economic subjugation. The promise of prosperity offered through preferential procurement opportunities inspired many to abandon formal employment in preference of exploring the unfamiliar business terrain. BEE is […]

Mamelodi Sundowns have started their 2010/11 Absa Premiership season like a house on fire, taking all nine points from their first three games. They are second on the log behind Ajax Cape Town, who have a better goal difference. Coach Antonio Lopez-Habas must be a happy man, so far it looks like he is on […]

It was with interest that I was invited to an Aussie Rules game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, known to us as the MCG and to the locals simply as the G (said with an Aussie twang). What I knew about Aussie Rules was that it’s sort of a combination of netball, rugby and soccer, […]

By Michael Watermeyer To be alive and among other people means that we are subject to regulation. There are important rules which govern our interactions with others. These are social, administrative and economic rules of engagement in the home; in the workplace; on the street or in the shops; whether interacting with government, or institutions […]

By Cedrick Ngalande It’s difficult to get correct news about South Africa by simply reading the Western press. I have lived in the US for nearly a decade. Every morning I look through the press to get news on Africa. In those 10 years I have never seen a single news article that correctly and […]

National rugby coaches are like lightning conductors for raw emotions and there is no such place on earth like the seat of the South African rugby coach, he gets struck multiple times with the intensity of heaven and hell colliding. When it’s good — the coach can do no wrong and when the Springbok team […]

The Braair4Heritage Foundation struck upon a pure gold idea when they conceived of the National Braai Day. That much is certainly pretty obvious. Bribing traffic officers, cutting corners and reinforcing our own prejudices aside, burning slabs of meat on open flames while downing copious amounts of SAB’s finest is that other common trait we all […]

Forget the fractured syntax and the word scramble of Zuma’s unscripted speech. Forget the flashes of naiveté. Forget the avuncular mien and the real personal warmth.

I am against affirmative action because it is premised on a fallacy. Race is a misleading political and socially loaded concept that has no real or biological basis. The justification for the continued use of these crude categories is a political programme that will not do what it claims to — that is, uplift the […]