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Hiking along a beautiful gorge in the Groendal area outside of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape with a young friend yesterday, our conversation ranged from complexity theory to cuisine (he happens to be an accomplished chef), what South Africa has to offer the world except minerals and tourist-attracting natural beauty, and, eventually, the emerging signs, […]

The Pope and Julius Malema are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Julius and says, “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like […]

For several years now, the relationship between Irvin Khoza and Danny Jordaan has been fraught with tension. They are, after all, the most formidable soccer administrators in the country and they have played a crucial role in securing South Africa the rights to host the 2010 World Cup and overseeing the mammoth task of hosting […]

By Tertius Kapp On the very first Heritage Day that South Africa celebrated, I wrote a little essay for a school competition. It described a young man taking to his inherited sheep with a shotgun. I am sure Shaka, the absent father of Heritage Day, would not have approved. Nevertheless, the piece won the competition, […]

And thus it began … God commanded Abraham, “Take your son, your favoured one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:2). Abraham obeyed. He packed wood for the offering and a firestone and headed off with Isaac to the appointed place. […]

Heritage Day for most people was a day to celebrate. Braais were going, music was playing and people chilled at home or at events around the country. For some, however, Heritage Day was pretty miserable and heritage night and the entire long weekend was worse and was spent in the dark. That’s because City Power […]

ANCYL president Julius Malema today supported ASA president Leonard Chuene whom he believes should not have apologised for his conduct because he was genuinely attempting to protect Caster Semenya He then went on to advise that “he did not believe human beings could be hermaphrodites”. (Eyewitness News) In other words he denies Semenya’s medically and […]

Once in a while you come across a politician who leads from the front and lives by example. And so when you have a premier who does not hesitate to show an MEC the door, is not afraid to show the rebels in the taxis the middle finger when they threaten violence and has already […]

It is not often that we get the opportunity of getting behind the ANCYL on an issue because normally we’re too busy getting behind the sandbags or into a bunker whenever these cheeky chappies come up with another cunning plan. Today however their confirmation that “the Premier Soccer League (PSL) must accept the outcome of […]

I once remember sitting in a public library, enjoying the peace, browsing through a couple of books. There were a number of people in the reading area. I shifted in my chair and one of the joinings was a bit loose because the chair creaked loudly, a parping noise, uncomfortably like a “you know what”, […]

The sticky issue of England’s cricket side resembling a United Nations delegation keeps raising its head, but it shouldn’t be such a surprising trend to cricket followers. A glance at the numbers reveal why so many South Africans, in particular, find themselves furnished with county contracts and the long-term prospect, however faint, of international cricket […]

Everybody loves a winning team but then Bafana are just not doing it. The current Bafana Bafana set-up is not the greatest since South Africa’s re-admission to international football in 1992. A lot of questions have to be asked: who are the best coaches to lead the national team? Is local good or do we […]