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Submitted by Julie Posetti “Our Muslims are well behaved and respected … they aren’t like yours.” This was the patronising response I received from one South African when I outlined my research into media coverage of Muslim women in Australia. And, it’s a theme that’s been echoed in conversations with more informed South Africans, with […]

Submitted by Anthea Garman The Winter School — a place where people perform by talking — is an old, established part of the National Arts Festival. But what is its role and value in a festival that celebrates the arts in all their glory and diversity? Is talk an art? That’s debatable, but what isn’t […]

Who? Justin Gimelstob, winner of two tennis Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and now on the board of the ATP, during a radio program broadcast to Washington residents decided to have a full go at Anna Kournikova. He called the Russian tennis player “a bitch” and described how he would like to hurt her during […]

John Smit has finally joined his team and the assembly is complete and Dan Carter is an ordinary underwear model and human and vain and can be neutralised. The Boks’ preparation included a field session yesterday and then one on Thursday. Just what one needs to get focussed and in the groove for Saturday’s National […]

Writing in the SA Jewish Report some years ago, journalist and talkshow host Jon Qwelane challenged the Jewish community to prove to him that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was, in fact, a forgery. Evidently, he had some doubts on that score at the time. Happily for Qwelane, those doubts would now seem […]

Dan Carter is to play with five South Africans (Percy Montgomery, Philip Burger, Gerrie Britz, Steve Meyer and Gavin Hume) at Perginan at the end of the year. Now, Leicester Tigers, one of Europe’s heavy weights in rugby, have announced former Bulls head coach Heyneke Meyer to lead them into battle next year. And so […]

I started writing a post on how to understand how respect works with developers, that quickly expanded to cover other technology worker types as “passionate technology people”. Which is rather unwieldy a term to be throwing around throughout a post and not entirely encompassing of the people I mean anyway. “Geek” is the most accurate […]

One of my favourite stories illustrating the fragility of US race relations is that of Trevor Richards, a South African who emigrated with his parents from Johannesburg to the States in 1998. Six years later, at his school in Omaha, Nebraska, fifteen year old Trevor (with the help of two classmates) nominated himself as a […]

Everyone knows that it’s about who you know and not what you know.. Being someone who is heavily involved in the online market, I’m continually dropping tweets, answering friend requests and plugging away at my keyboard on myriad instant messaging services. Over the past several months, I’ve seen people in the new media trade, hurrying […]

E-commerce in South Africa is ready for explosion, with customers growing in confidence and new online stores opening every day. There are many new technologies and suppliers emerging, but sorting the good from the bad is often only learnt through painful experience. Here are five service providers that we have settled on after a few […]

With the might of Peter de Villiers’ green and gold Springbok army about to embark on a Tri-Nations campaign against the old enemy, I though I might revisit this crock of…theory. To be fair to them, I believe that if my missus was among the chefs cooking for those Kiwis, there’s every chance that they […]

This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: In what kind of South Africa would you like to live?