By Glenda Daniels Guess what? The ANC has not shown up for any of the Press Council review public hearings held so far this month. And yet, it is the ANC, more than any other organisation in the country, which is unhappy about the independent and critical South African press. Last year there was heated […]
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21 activities missing from your timesheets
In the course of the jobs we do, a lot of us have to fill in timesheets. Billable hours are important, and HR needs to be able to track what you’re up to every day. Most timesheet systems require that eight hours be filled every day or they are considered incomplete, and, while it’s possible […]
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Time for a gay revolution
Gays and lesbians unite. It is time to rise up. Homosexuals, transsexuals, intersexuals, transgendered, everyone queer, gather your friends and allies, open your Twitter accounts, prepare your placards, and take a note from our friends in North Africa: it is time for a gay revolution. We have been nice for too long, we have been […]
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Spare us from the tyranny of lists
Oh, spare us from the tyranny of lists. Is this what the sum of human knowledge has been reduced to? Is sorting what we have to say into discrete packets of information the only way ensure that you will be read? Quite possibly; after all, that’s why I’m guilty of doing the same thing myself. […]
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Me and Nelson Mandela
I love to cook and so there came a point during the struggle, where I gave up full-time journalism, became a full-time activist, part of the underground, and after long, endless meetings, would cook for strugglistas. Murphy Morobe loved my veal Marengo, Cyril Ramaphosa would call at 11pm after going to mines and speaking to […]
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Africa’s tin-can version of Twitter has it right
Journalist Ezra Sibanda sits in London with lists of Zimbabwean cellphone numbers. These are his notes for his radio show which he broadcasts to Zimbabwe via short wave (and the internet). From London’s East End he draws a massive rural listenership by dragging a finger down his list of 45 000 numbers and calling Zimbabweans at […]
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I want to fit into a box
I want to fit into a box. Kugels get to be in boxes. So do boytjies and tenderpreneurs, cougars and sugar daddies and yummy mummies. So why not me? I want to be able to describe who I am in a sentence. Life is perplexing, and I’d feel better were I to fit into the […]
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Why Power Balance® is like apartheid
It’s happened twice this weekend: once on Friday among the black-pants-and-blue-shirt-set at The Baron on Fredman Drive, once at the Ciao Baby Cucina in Cedar Square. That’s where I saw young men wearing Power Balance wristbands. You have to admire their persistence and their bravery, because they might as well be walking around wearing twinkling […]
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Do you want fries with your PhD?
The BA is not a way to find a man. It’s not a route to eternal poverty. And it’s not (necessarily) a soft option for students who can’t crack science or engineering. So argues the always provocative Professor Jonathan Jansen, who says that a BA is not useless degree. Jansen quotes the pizza joke (“at […]
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Gender coverage: Thought Leader leads the pack
Thought Leader was recently named as the forum where “most analytic discussion of sexual violence” was taking place by the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, which recently conducted a study on the reporting of sexual violence in South Africa. Preliminary findings of the report were released in November to coincide with the 16 days of activism, […]
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Enough with the media’s half-baked legal analysis
By Malose S Monene The editor, The intellectual slum to which we are daily subjected by our mainstream media has really reached alarming proportions. Nowhere is it more evident than in the way criminal court matters vis-a-vis NPA operations have been reported and commented on. Half truths, lies and gallant displays of acute ignorance about […]
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Thou shalt want, more
Imagine for a minute you woke one morning to find all advertising replaced with religious scripture. If you are Christian, imagine the messages were Muslim, and vice versa if you’re Muslim. Every logo, billboard, television advert and radio spot, now a quote from the Bible. How would you respond? I’m pretty positive that people would […]