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One of the fundamental problems that black lawyers are facing in the bid to transform the make-up of legal firms and employment of advocates is the unfortunate legacy we are still carrying from the days of apartheid. Clients — both black and white — are nervous about using black attorneys in the mistaken belief that […]

Here we go — January 2009 and the Super 14 warm up games have started in New Zealand. They are so organised their squads were announced mid November 2008. As we are four weeks out of the start of the Super 14 tournament on February 13, I thought we could focus on each of the […]

Your vice-captain or the new hot hand on the block? After a rocky start, Ashwell Prince has proven to be a reliable steady influence in the Proteas’ middle order. That summer against the Pakistanis proved to be his making and he’s not looked back since, while his maturity and leadership within the team saw him […]

Here in the ebook-making world there’s a lot of to and fro about how much design matters when text is getting reflowed in different screens and applications, from tiny phones to 22-inch LCDs. Will book designers have jobs in a publishing world dominated by ebooks? A few years ago when Mobipocket dominated the ebook market, […]

Former Dutch Sport Minister Erica Terpstra is rarely short of words, but when she led a delegation representing 37 Dutch companies on a 2010 World Cup Trade Mission to South Africa late last year, she was left speechless by Durban’s Moses Mabhida stadium: “Of all the stadiums we saw, that one is special – it […]

My best friend, a man of great wisdom, extraordinary intellect and awesome talent, in asking about my plans for the months I will be spending in the United States soon, said, “Well, Kriel, just make sure you don’t go over there and trash this country”. He went on to explain how so many ordinary South […]

I have a morbid fear of being run over by a car. The fear is a little on the irrational side. Even if someone assured me that there were no vehicles within a 5km radius I would still cross the road the way I usually cross roads i.e. head swivelling left-and-right 60 times a second. […]

My best read of 2008 was Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, sci-fi writer, co-editor of Boing Boing and general good guy. San Francisco is hit by a major terrorist attack and the US Department of Homeland Security goes bezerk. In the war on terror all basic human rights are hung out to dry and no […]

WHAT a time it is to be a South African sports fan and even more so to be a follower of Graeme Smith and his burgeoning troop of talented cricketers who can now lay claim to being the finest Test outfit in world cricket. That they are not nearly the finished product only serves to […]

The Talented Mr Gibbs Ricky Ponting Age – 34 Tests – 127 Runs – 10,697 Avg – 57.2 Debut – 8/12/1995 ODI – 301 Runs – 11,113 Avg – 43.24 Debut – 15/02/1995 Herschelle Gibbs Age – 34 Tests – 90 Runs – 6,167 Avg – 41,95 Debut – 27/11/1996 ODI – 234 Runs – […]

We have seen the internet grow up quite quickly and the technology used to power websites has become so amazingly powerful that the internet is no longer made up of glorified business cards, but highly programmable interfaces for a global community. Web 2.0, as we know it, has definitely been the age for social platforms […]