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This is the last of my letters. I hope the Post Office delivered my previous ones to you. Straight to the issues. I have seen you raving and ranting about defending the Freedom Charter like a priest guarding a holy shrine. But when unmasked, your defence of the Freedom Charter is not defence for the […]

Feeling somewhat bored during the international break in the English Premier League, a mate went off on a tangent, telling me how well-run clubs are much like superbly maintained engines: precise, thrilling and consistent. I pondered this for a while and decided to stretch it further. Why not compare the sides to motorcars. With that […]

While former president Thabo Mbeki has always made allowances for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, things may well take a dramatic turn for the worse for the old man when the South African delegation arrives in Swaziland on Monday. President Kgalema Motlanthe leads a local delegation and will be joined by two other members of the […]

The furious and passionate debate of whether to cull the Springbok, or not, has had one reading nearly every single one of the articles for and against the existence of the Springbok. It has been exhausting, but most of all it has been painful to observe how South Africans have turned on each other and […]

It causes horror and frustration to be sitting on the sidelines watching the drama and dilemma around the Springbok emblem, especially after watching on TV the Springbok Saga series, which gave me goosebumps and made me proud to be a South African, knowing that we won world cups in 1995 and 2007 — a 50% […]

I wonder if newer residents of London, New York, Paris or San Francisco feel this way. I’ve noticed over the past couple of weeks that I’ve come to feel quite resentful of tourists, which is a bit rich, considering that I myself was one until a little less than six months ago. I noticed it […]

The public relations machinery responsible for selling the 2010 World Cup to the rest of the planet is finally grinding into gear. It’s no secret that South Africa has taken a beating in terms of its international media coverage since it was awarded the rights to host the world’s biggest single-code sporting event. With each […]

Allow me first to pick on Afrikaners to make my point, even though I expect to be accused of racism and being divisive. I have been most astounded by the general hypocrisy of South Africans, all South Africans. But I have particularly observed that many Afrikaners are passionate about their history and guard it jealously; […]

Submitted by Loammi Wolf With the resignation of president Thabo Mbeki from office, the following questions arise: What is going to happen to the suspended National Director of Public Prosecutions, advocate Vusi Pikoli? Has Dr Frene Ginwala completed her report? Was it already handed over to the former president? What are the legal consequences of […]

I’m not Luke Watson’s biggest fan, but this week, the guy has been unjustly vilified by the “conservative” media who, I suspect, have an agenda and are using Watson as a tool to pursue their goals. I might be wrong, but until proven otherwise, I’m convicted to that view. I’m not saying Luke is a […]

With the economy going through a really bad stage and the rand plummeting against the dollar, euro and pound, I wonder to myself how this is going to affect web agencies and more specifically, online marketers. Let’s face it, most companies have websites already, some being brilliant and others being simple static ones. Regardless of […]

The Krokodil is well known for his Crossing the Rubicon speech in 1985 in which Botha was widely expected to announce new reforms. Instead, he refused to give in to pressure for concessions to the black population including the release of Nelson Mandela. His defiance of international opinion in this speech led to further isolation […]