Lifestyle

So there you are, driving down the road, minding your own business, when you get snared by a roadblock. The traffic cop who comes to your window asks for your driver’s licence, checks your car’s number plates and licence disc, then goes back to his vehicle. When he returns he brusquely tells you that you’re […]

Please accept my apologies for my lack of enthusiasm for activism this year. I am worn out, and have neither the energy nor the inclination to find out exactly what activism activities are happening in my part of the world. I also have no desire to wear a symbolic white ribbon. (I don’t do ribbons.) […]

Hailing from the once-great and still-proud Zulu nation, I was brought up in a home where good traditional values were taught and guarded jealously. Among these values was respect for your fellow man, in generally, but most importantly was respect for your elders. The matriarchal female in the traditional Zulu homestead was always the most […]

You know all those stories about near-death experiences? The loooong passage, the beckoning figure silhouetted against a bright light at the end of the tunnel … Well, that wasn’t exactly my experience, but it came close, even though I was nowhere near dying — I simply had a broken wrist after tossing my KLR into […]

If they were really serious about stopping people drinking and driving, our government would do something constructive about it, other than just making money out of roadblocks in currently disadvantaged areas. Like providing a decent public transport system. But that’s never going to happen — our taxes are much better spent on rushing our troops […]

Politicians spend a great deal of our time and money passing myriad laws aimed at making us think they’re very busy people. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy may neither be created nor destroyed, so they’re obviously putting lots of effort into converting worthwhile tasks into bullshit just to impress us voters. […]

I attended a debate on crime the other night and I was struck by one of the contributions from the floor. It was a clinical psychologist who asked why so many people who complain about crime engage in criminal activity themselves. I thought about this and realised that so many of us are guilty of […]