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The big news this week is that President Obama is set to announce that he is in contact with aliens. There are even rumours that this was the real reason behind his Nobel Peace Prize. The prize being seen as a form of global mandate in the upcoming intergalactic parley. While it doesn’t surprise me […]

On Wednesday morning I headed over to the Nokia The Way We Live Next event in Cape Town. Richard Mulholland did an excellent (and very objective) job of explaining the current mobile landscape. During the presentation a few things were highlighted that really did make me think. Needless to say, the topic soon shifted to […]

Congratulations to the Australian Rugby Union who against all odds have managed (read carefully and meticulously choreographed) to bring the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, especially when ARU has 80 000 registered rugby players and SA Rugby more than 500 000, over 5 times the number of players in Australia. SA Rugby has had 4 years […]

By Mohamed Fayaz Khan The fact that the electricity industry is a shambles is well-documented, understood and often ridiculed. The current price of electricity is not sustainably viable and significant capital is required to expand our base-load generating capacity to ensure that we do not again experience energy interruptions. The present situation was primarily a […]

Over the course of today, most if not all South African rugby fans would have heard the news that the Southern Kings did not win the right to be the 15th franchise in the expanded Super 15 competition, set to kick off in 2011. To say that this news is surprising would be the same […]

This week marked the 20th anniversary of the unification of Germany, an event that symbolises some extraordinary parallels between the hosts of the 2006 and 2010 editions of the World Cup. When Germany and South Africa slugged it out for the rights to host the tournament in 2006, they both used two of the most […]

Here’s the scenario: you are working in Shanghai and your SA passport is about to expire in a few months. Good, responsible citizen that you are, and not wishing to have trouble with the Chinese authorities when renewing your work visa, you duly go to the SA consulate in Shanghai. Bureaucratic procedures combined with the […]

It is a glorious summer morning in Istanbul; colours of the sky resemble a messy oil painting; both resplendent and melancholic in one go. After roaming around the ancient Roman road in Sultanahmet, Divanyalo Caddessi, searching for a cheap but tasty joint to have breakfast, I find myself standing outside a quaint pastry and fresh […]

Have you noticed that South Africa is father-free? Every time you hear a devastating news story about children who have died in a car accident/shack fire/hit and run/scary child stabbing incident the news reader feels that it is imperative to note that “the child(ren)’s mother was not there at the time of the (insert horror […]

I had a feeling that the “Springboks” were going to lose to the Leicester Tigers on Friday night. The fixture reminded me of the torrid time the Irish club side Connacht gave the Boks in the lead up to the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Match feedback from that game recorded that the Springboks “played with […]

By Rachel Nyaradzo Adams I have grappled with the Reitz Four saga for some time now. When I first watched the video, I was in the process of completing research for my master’s dissertation which explored the difficulties of “deracialising” South African universities. Using my alma mater, the University of Cape Town, as a case […]

It is funny how where you are affects the way you see things. Like my viewing of the Chelsea-Manchester United clash on Sunday, for instance. Instead of the normal, lofty armchair, I found myself in the altogether more dodgy surrounds of a dingy Durban pub. Complete with its own sulky bar lady, intimidating owner and […]