Oh my days. It is entirely frustrating when you represent a cause, only to hear someone say that your cause is irrelevant because they don’t understand what it is. Bev Merriman, you just made me feel very, very ill. It’s like someone saying they’re going to speed, because so far, speeding hasn’t been bad for […]
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We’d love to hang ’em high…but we can’t
There’s one very good reason why we could never reinstate the death penalty in South Africa, and it has little to do with the Constitution as far as I’m concerned. It’s simply that we couldn’t properly trust or control a state killing machine capable of churning its way through the tens of thousands of brutal, […]
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Is your lifestyle really worth it?
Last week I watched a documentary type film called Oceans. The whole film was spectacular, but for me one piece was particularly striking. Shot underwater, looking up towards the surface, we slowly panned over what looked like a bright red satin sari. It was gliding through the water, soft yellow lines rippling across the red […]
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Willy Nilly
Summer crashes over us. Reassuring odours of hobo remind me that decay is life just above room temperature. Now, we are all funky. Humidity holds air in bunched fists, in the shade, waiting to be drunk. The car guard has lost an eye and fingers in some great unfairness. I’m outside the Sexpo, marvelling at […]
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How do poor people have babies?
In two weeks time my wife and I are having a baby. More my wife than me, I can’t take too much credit for these things. Yes, I played my part. But I don’t have to carry it around for 9 months, or deal with all the strange ills that come from having an alien […]
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Zimbabwe, my home
By Sibonginkosi Hlabangana Some months back I took a trip to my home country, Zimbabwe. I had last been there a few years prior to this visit. As we neared landing, I couldn’t help but remember watching a documentary about some country where there was war, people dying, some eating tree bark and all the […]
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Act your digital age
People who start emails with “Good day” can knit me a cardigan. Might as well keep going and do a nice little tea cosy for your motherboard. Although a certain amount of etiquette is required when writing a business email, it’s not necessary to throw the kitchen sink at it. When I’m reading work emails […]
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Sex sells sick boobs
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Who doesn’t love to have an extra feel of their or their partner’s breasts to check them out for health and safety? It’s essential and if you’re not sure how to do it, have a look at this guide on how to cop an educated feel. Remember that this […]
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Hosting aliens
By Hansie Smit What a relief it was to see the UN appointed an official ambassador to take that first call from outer space. Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, promised to keep her cell phone on 24/7 to make sure we don’t miss the opportunity to host an interstellar kuier. OK, so let’s assume the […]
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New Earth? We’d just end up polluting it
The discovery of a Goldilocks planet known as Gliese 581g, a mere 20 light years from Earth, has occasioned much excitement among scientists. The planet, which is found in the Libra constellation orbits a low-energy dwarf star called Gliese 581 and is called a Goldilocks planet because it is roughly the size of Earth and […]
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The comfort of things
I have a lot of stuff in my office. Even by the standards of the creatives in the cubicles up the way, there’s an inordinate amount of clutter and colour jostling for the attention of anybody who happens to pass by on the way to collect their printouts or send a fax. There are books, […]
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Happy Pride my fellow lesbians
By Mbali Toyana The Oxford dictionary defines penchant (n) as a strong inclination, taste or liking for something. My “something” happens to be women. I adore women. Passionately and indiscriminately. I love different sorts of women and I love different things about them. I love powerful women. I love sensitive women. I love them young […]