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I very seldom laugh like a dog while I’m driving, but a headline in the Citizen about Viagra enhancing sports performances nearly caused a crash. Can you imagine the Test in Wellington on Saturday if the Bokke were on “the pill”? Just for starters, the haka would have been of grave concern to the All […]

Watching the Springboks take on New Zealand this past weekend, I was struck by two rather profound thoughts. Firstly, that it still isn’t socially acceptable to drink hard liquor in the morning, judging by the disapproving looks I received from the other patrons at the coffee bar I was frequenting. Secondly — and most importantly […]

Welcome to Let’s Talk. This is the first interview of many more to come on my blog. The aim here of Let’s Talk is to provide a fun yet insightful interview platform for readers and industry leaders alike. The very first interview is with Rob Stokes the Group CEO of Quirk. What exactly do you […]

In theory, I could live almost anywhere in the world. I have a US education, an EU passport, a work-from-anywhere career and have already called four countries home. I have chosen to settle in South Africa, not because it is my country of birth (it isn’t) and certainly not because of a lack of choices. […]

Reading the (offline) newspaper this weekend, it was interesting to see a selection of Google adverts across various sections. For instance, in Independent Newspapers’ Travel 2008 supplement, there’s an advert with the caption “Find flights to Johannesburg on your mobile”. The advert features a picture of a mobile phone, in this case the Nokia N95, […]

I am sitting in front of my television on a day of which any sports lover dreams. Formula One, Tour de France, a Wimbledon final and replays of the Currie Cup rugby matches make up just a few of the channels I have at my disposal. As I watch the sport on the tellie, I […]

While Adolf Hitler was losing his head at a waxworks museum in Berlin, the All Blacks were keeping theirs and recording a deserved victory in Wellington on Saturday. Not one for the faint-hearted, this Test was not so much ebb and flow but more bleed and go as the two juggernauts squared up. Definitely worth […]

I have returned from a trip to Eastern Europe, one of the former enclaves of the USSR (remember them?). I went to Poland and saw a bit of Slovakia as well. It was, I must say, quite a revelation in many ways, including from a football perspective. As expected, the passion for club football over […]

Internet users in South Africa hold their breath as they wait for the arrival of new undersea cables which promise to bring much higher bandwidth at much reduced prices. Hopefully. But what constitutes a good deal in buying access to undersea fibre? It used to be that Telkom was the only deal in town but […]

There is an inclination to look at tomorrow’s Test match against the All Blacks as being THE moment and THE goal — to beat the Kiwis in a rugby test match in their country. It is one of ten steps to the 2011 Rugby World Cup in the same place, at the same time — […]

Springbok coach Peter de Villiers was quite right when he said his charges should first beat the All Blacks before they could truly feel like the rugby world champions. But he has been accused by some blinkered South African supporters of undermining the Springboks’ status as winners of the Rugby World Cup in France last […]

One of the most daunting sights that any rugby player will ever encounter’s is the New Zealand Haka being performed by the All Blacks. This Maori war dance just before a Test match is guaranteed to send a chill down even the hardest of spines. Not for the faint-hearted. With the Springboks top world ranking […]