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While South Africa are sending assessors up to Zimbabwe next week in order to ascertain how much we need to spend on food and medical supplies to save that country’s long-suffering millions, IWPR are reporting that several million US dollars are being budgeted for the Zanu-PF conference to be held in Bindura from December 10 […]

In his first masterwork, Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre – the father of Existentialist philosophy — argues in neo-Kantian fashion that human beings don’t have a choice about being “free”. We are “doomed to be free”, according to him. In other words, even when someone ostensibly chooses NOT to be free – blaming his or […]

The man Eddie Jones is either a marvel or a Tasmanian Devil. Born January 30, 1960 in Burnie, Tasmania, of a Japanese mother and an Australian father, Eddie Jones is a rugby union coach and former player. He left the Queensland Reds after their worst position since the inception of the Super 12, was the […]

The hideous attack on the Indian city of Mumbai has once again demonstrated that terrorism has no boundaries. And with the spotlight now shifting to South Africa as the hosts of the next mega global sporting event, concerns over this country’s security have been raised. The Sunday Times warns that we must be vigilant: “The […]

In 2007/08, the South African government spent R105-bn on education, while corporate social investment (CSI) in education amounted to R1.3-bn. While a significant amount of money, the CSI contribution is relatively small (about 1%). SA spends a higher percentage of its GDP on education than most other countries (that achieve better results in international education […]

It might seem, from watching the news lately, that it’s the end of the world as we know it. Freakish weather, unexplained acts of violence, political unrest, and a general craziness that seems to have seeped into the ether. But there are still a handful of things to be grateful about. Here are a few […]

A few months ago, an article was published titled Google’s search dominance, stating the following: According to Masie, a sixth of all internet searches in South Africa come from mobile devices, the highest ratio in the world. To ensure that it leads in the mobile search market Google SA launched its universal search for mobile […]

I have always been deeply suspicious of the way history or current events are conveyed. There is so much opportunity for the entropy of the “truth” from original event to end readers of texts: texts which are inevitably just interpretations and potentially filled with biases. Thus, infamously, a factory for WMD in Iraq turns out […]

Man, oh man, is it ever Xmas time again! Not Christ-mas. Crass, crumby, commercial, crappy credit-crunching Xmas. Today’s Sunday Times is the most eloquent reflection of the sordid, sleazy, gimme-gimme world we have become. And I, for one, am deeply ashamed to confess that my ears and eyes and taste-buds and olfactory sensors are electric […]

Since local organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan first spearheaded South Africa’s campaign to host a World Cup, he has frequently repeated the refrain: “There is no contradiction between African and world class”. And this country’s favourite sports administrator was at it again following the slick and impressive draw for the 2009 Confederations Cup. Although the […]

On Wednesday SA Rugby’s President Oregan Hoskins received a written demand from one of South Africa’s leading labour attorneys, Jacques Jansen of Jansens Inc, advising SA Rugby that they have received a mandate from personnel and players formerly of the Southern Spears, to recover unpaid salaries, leave pay, notice pay and outstanding bonuses from SA […]