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Are there no black people in old-age homes? I’m just checking, because many a response to a blog about culture by a white writer receives a response about how culturally unacceptable putting old people into homes is. This idea has appeared as a response to many of the blogs I’ve written in critique of Zulu […]

é On March 5, SA Rugby nominations for President, Deputy President and Vice President, must be received in writing, from both the nominees accepting the nomination, as well as those doing the nomination, for the SA Rugby elections that will take place on the March 26. It is really quite simple. SA Rugby’s 14 unions […]

The eventual chaos of an overflowing desk and the lugging around of a ton of books and papers in the library is the bane of every student doing a research article, dissertation or thesis. Cue Mendeley.com. Mendeley.com is a research tool which every researcher of any kind can not do without in the Web 2.0 […]

By Suntosh Pillay “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.” This is Immanuel Kant’s short but potent definition, offered in 1748. About 260 years later, his paper on the question of Enlightenment remains powerfully persuasive and prophetically relevant. It may even help us expose immature public office bearers. Is Julius Malema immature (let alone […]

Common consensus appears to exist that men (and women) in all circumstances are naturally disposed to duplicity, dishonesty, hypocrisy and corruption; that those with greater prominence almost always reflect the vices and virtues of society in which they exist. Their pursuit and preservation of power in all spheres of life is characterised by the shameful […]

By Mncedisi Mashigoane “Liberated” men who subscribe to the feminist and Western notions of gender equality and women’s emancipation have been agonising about the tame reaction to old Jacob’s latest sexual scandal. They have lamented the insincerity of his apology moving for his resignation for sexual indiscretion. They have called for the nation to rise […]

I write this as South Africa do their damnedest to avoid defeat in Kolkatta, with Hashim Amla showing insane form and being backed up by Wayne Parnell, who we all suspected could bat a bit. Fingers crossed on that one … oh shit … nevermind. Parnell has just been dismissed. The Proteas are toast it […]

With less than four months remaining before the 2010 World Cup gets underway, South Africa’s neighbours are finalising their preparations to ensure they are part and parcel of the biggest event of any kind to occur on the continent. Sadly, Zimbabwe has, for the most part, been excluded from the party thanks to years of […]

I’ve been thinking recently about the British law which allows that government to deport foreigners it deems to be guilty of hate speech. It has been used to deport Islamist clerics it considers to be “preaching hatred” and also to refuse entry to a virulently anti-Muslim Dutch MP. The law has come in for a […]

President Jacob Zuma’s assertion that South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, was as much a conservative Afrikaner leader as his predecessor PW Botha is absolutely right. Both were born and raised by traditional Afrikaans families who believed in the approach of conservative, white South African politics. What distinguished the two from one another […]

I was watching the news yesterday for some reason, I must have been either really bored, comatose or my housemate was forcing “current affairs” (aka what the media is punting for their mates that day) on me and I saw a report on some of the commentary that was presented on the State of the […]