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The line-up for Saturday’s global rugby fixtures are: New Zealand vs England, Australia vs Ireland, and on home turf in Pretoria — at 5 000 feet — it’s South Africa vs Wales. Appetisers of two portions of Wales and one of Italy, before the main course in the home of the All Blacks on the 5th […]

Last month, Camden in south-western Sydney hit the headlines when its council refused an application to build an Islamic school on planning grounds. The ruling brought forth both cringeworthy Aussie nationalism and criticism of narrow-minded rednecks displaying cringeworthy Aussie nationalism. When you consider that Sydney is coming to a virtual standstill — at taxpayers’ expense […]

So now we know. The speculation is over. I was listening to the Apple WWDC event’s iPhone announcements lastnight live on ustream, following the excellent live blogging on Engadget and keeping up with the lively micro-blogging commentary. The announcement everyone was waiting for took ages to come, but it eventually arrived to rapturous applause and […]

With Clint Eastwood about to make a movie about Madiba and Francois Pienaar, and knowing the American director’s zeal for researching everything and anything on the subject matter he is covering, I figured Os du Randt must be a shoe-in for the picture. Of course, having selected Matt Damon to play aw Franshwa man, he […]

Get your already bombarded minds ready for an attack of digital screens which will hunt you down and force their products on you. Advertisers are latching on to the fact that they have to position themselves wherever they can find you, in the taxi, while you’re shopping, standing in the Bank and sooner than you […]

I have this credibility problem with cartoons where, when they regularly reach behind their heads/into their coats, they tend to whip out gadgets/weaponry that outweigh them and flaunt Newton One to Three. For storylines, its weak. But for concepts like storing terabytes of data and other objects off your local grid, its incredible. And that’s […]

Finally, Owen da Gama has buckled under pressure at Pirates and resigned, notwithstanding his constant ‘we are building for next season’ theme. His departure for me is not just another coach leaving Pirates, but rather it is a manifestation of deep-rooted problems in that team. It must be said, though, that the more significant development […]

The week before the recent BMW Championship at Wentworth, Ernie Els posted a blurb on his website about how good his swing was feeling and how much he was looking forward to the tournament at his home course (he has a house on the 16th). It was a fairly predictable piece but for some reason […]

We football fans are an optimistic lot. I would know, being a lifelong Orlando Pirates F.C. fan. I still believe. I always will, too. I will chew my fingers to the bone waiting for that stirring fight back, one hand on the Gold Star above our club badge (eat your hearts out Chief’s supporters), the […]

My recent gadget buying spree has left me with a gold mine of geeky gadgets. It suddenly hit me, as I made a list for insurance purposes, that I have several devices that can serve the same purpose, but I still use them all. This left me wondering: why do I have so many gadgets? […]

The Springboks’ 43-17 victory over Six Nations and Triple Crown champions Wales in Bloemfontein last Saturday is certainly reason to celebrate — but to go into complete euphoria and claim that it ushered in a new era of a different brand of South African rugby is perhaps just a bit too much. It wasn’t a […]

Warren Gatland has demanded that Wales make a swift recovery from their opening Test “humiliation” by restoring their damaged pride. Gatland and his coaching lieutenants on Sunday began the task of restoring the morale shattered by South Africa’s crushing 43-17 victory at Vodacom Park. The quiet confidence that emanated from the Welsh camp in the […]