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Eight Absa Premiership teams will go to battle this coming weekend with a staggering R8 million at stake so we can expect some exciting football in the last four matches. This tournament will provide further insight as to how the participating teams will line up this season, especially the so-called “big guns” of South African football: […]

While shopping at Sandton City a few days ago a rather forceful young lady came up to me and handed me a pamphlet. The pamphlet had big bold letters saying: “The End of the World Is Almost Here! Holy God Will Bring Judgment Day On May 21, 2011.” The first thing that came to my […]

Since the expansion of Super rugby arrived, there have been suggestions indicating that the days of the oldest domestic rugby competition in the world are numbered. It was a decent conclusion, considering that from next year the Currie Cup will be beginning later than ever, with Super rugby concluding in August (do I smell overkill […]

Various football leagues around the world kicked off this weekend, and isn’t this just happening at the right time? People were just getting over their World Cup hangovers, and now we face another 10 months or so of top soccer all the way from Europe. The season curtain-raisers happened last weekend, with Manchester United convincingly […]

I am not sure why JZ wants to gag the media because the media does a pretty good job of gagging itself. Through the selective targeting of the wealthy classes, papers like the Sunday Times, the Argus, and the Mail & Guardian effectively silence themselves.  They don’t speak to the ordinary people of this country. […]

The world ain’t what it used to be. Globalisation arguably started as long ago as Macedonian Alexander the Great’s military expansion towards the East, followed by the Roman Empire’s far-flung hold on the ancient world (and if one really wanted to push the argument, you could claim that it commenced almost 150 000 years ago when […]

By Doug Downie It had been a lousy evening. There was trouble at home, which was about 10 000 miles away. The lines of communication were being shut down. It was very difficult to be in the dark about someone like a daughter. There was trouble brewing in my current base as well. A stink was […]

I was reading an article about the rights that victims of crime have in terms of getting compensated after they have been to court. In this article, and the poll on the side of the post, there was the general sentiment that money simply wasn’t going to cut it. Maybe this speaks to a feeling […]

I secretly rejoiced when Springbok coach Peter de Villiers was cleared of misconduct charges related to comments made during a Fox TV programme. It probably irked our Australasian friends intensely that the presiding authority was a South African based judicial officer acting for Sanzar. PdV’s comment that maybe it was the right thing for New […]

Before all of you start jumping to conclusions about my ignorance and what not; how about you actually read what I have to say… HIV/AIDs has become a moot point of some sort in our society, like everything else in life we go through them in phases. When it was the beginning stages of the […]

A 3-2 defeat by Lesotho last weekend means that South Africa’s Under-20 national team will miss out on the next edition of the African youth championships as well as the world youth championships. This is yet another big blow for the progress of South African football, it has robbed our youngsters of a valuable opportunity […]

According to current victims’ services policies in South Africa, victims of crime generally have the right to request information about the status of their case, but do not have the automatic right to receive that information without asking for it. So we currently place the burden on the victim to fill in a form, pay […]