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Three seemingly divergent articles found their ways on to my screen within the last 24 hours. I’m not sure if some supernatural puppeteer planned it that way or whether my innate penchant for irony simply sees connections where there aren’t really any. The first was Time‘s Friday 13 article by John Cloud, “Is Genius Born […]

One of the best articles I have read of late is “God is Black” by Michael Kinsley. Aptly, it appeared in Time Magazine’s inauguration preview issue of Obama becoming president (January 26 print edition), an issue which focused on the new US president’s policies and “the burdens that await him”. It was a delight and a […]

Khampepe, Ginwala, Niehaus, corruption charges, two centres of powers, kill for Zuma, formation of Cope, recall of Mbeki, Nicholson, Hlope — a never-ending list of reasons why the ANC and not the Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille should have called for ANC president Jacob Zuma to withdraw his presidential candidacy. Each case, incident, investigation represents […]

The social media buzz is barely dying down as more and more mainstream companies jump on the well-oiled bandwagon that has been created in the last couple of years. There is, however, one problem the social media gurus never told us — harnessing the power of electronic-based tools to further your business may in fact […]

People assume that just because one is a parent, one loves kids. Rubbish, I can’t stand kids that are not my own. And there’s nothing I hate more than parents who can’t stop jabbering on and on about their kids and how smart they are and how “little Sizwe said the sweetest thing the other […]

Inside the Zimbabwean political amphitheatre are scenes of the tired, the old and the uninspiring. These are scenes not too gladly and willingly watched but forcefully shown to the audience. It sounds really absurd but in reality no one is spared from the ever-disappointing drama coming out of Zimbabwe. Like many, I have watched with […]

Most of you will recall the cover of the /New Yorker magazine which depicted US President Barack Obama as being Muslim and his wife as a gun-toting terrorist. It appeared in July last year and resulted in such a deluge of hate mail, threats and outrage that you would have thought it would have given […]

In aeronautical terms, the point of no return is known as the “radius of action formula”. Either way, it refers to the moment beyond which a current course of action must continue because turning back is physically impossible, prohibitively expensive or dangerous. And so it is with South Africa’s charge towards hosting the 2010 World […]

Since the end of slavery and the period during the fight by Africans for independence from colonial rule, Africans had been imbued by a renewed sense of consciousness of their being and blackness. The struggle for liberation from the shackles of colonialism was primarily premised on the innate struggle for psychological emancipation from mental slavery, […]

Submitted by Paul Deppe Discrimination in the workplace in some or other form has plagued South Africa since the early settlers inhabited the Cape in the 1600s. Colonialism ensured that the white population enriched themselves while depriving the indigenous population of social, political and economic power. At the turn of the 20th century the English […]

Blame-shifting is self-destructive energy. Carl Niehaus is obviously a desperate man. Desperate men do desperate things, therefore the gush of confessions coming out of his mouth needs to be closely checked. For instance, already Rhema Church has denied ever lending Carl Niehaus about R700 000; a spokesman claims the church only stood as surety on a […]

A friend (cyber friend might be more appropriate) made an interesting comment on Facebook about Tokyo Sexwale recently. Sexwale once accused Cope of using old people to get votes. “I thought Tokyo said they don’t use old people to win votes!” said my friend. A few days ago the ANC marched and paraded Nelson Mandela […]