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I don’t keep my skeletons in a closet, I keep them in a suitcase. It’s much easier to flee with a suitcase in hand when the authorities come. This way you can run away with your evidence. This is why I prefer suitcases. When I lived in Cape Town, a friend of mine used to […]

What makes a great Test cricketer? It is a question which cannot be answered by mere statistical analysis alone since numbers fail to explain the importance of circumstance and context. Often, a gritty 67 is more valuable then a double century, a single wicket in a session is so important it puts a five-wicket haul […]

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 […]

So Parliament held its last session with pomp and ceremony to witness the changing of the judiciary guard. Judge Pius Langa must have been happy to see the back of the partisan-infested relationship between the executive and the judiciary which was marked in this session of Parliament with the appointment of his successor. A move […]

So the deputy minister of police, Fikile Mbalula, is now being heralded as someone who has a complete disregard for our Constitution, one who wants to kill people of South Africa, an enemy of democracy. For years I read articles and readers’ comments about the state of crime in South Africa and the inability of […]

My usual Sunday morning cycle turned out to be a solitary event because I assume the majority of Gauteng’s cyclists decided to participate in the annual 94.7 cycle race yesterday. This year’s event probably saw many entrants, most of whom were perhaps new to the sport and encouraged by peers to take part. With the […]

Shrrrikkt! Wolverine’s adamantium claws shred through the wooden door on the twenty-first floor of the abandoned building. The man, if such he is, known only as Arnie, is standing in the middle of the room, arms hanging, with that strangely emotionless face and the way cool sunglasses. Up swings Arnie’s machine gun as he bellows […]

Speculation is mounting that President Jacob Zuma will pardon convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik and before Christmas too. This despite previous denials that it was being contemplated. “Zuma not only has the power to pardon, he also has the power to return the R39.2 million that the state confiscated from Shaik — and expunge his criminal record […]

The African President of the Year award is a publicity gimmick and this first-time award has as much credibility as one of the shiny bottle tops that Idi Amin used to wear on his chest.

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 […]