News/Politics

This is a less kinky story than you think it’s going to be, though I have another story involving some red fluffy handcuffs and some Spanish border checks but that is for another time. The images relating to the story I’m telling you now can be found on the My First Time website. The first […]

As I write, Google returns 56 million results for my search on “Assange”. Pretty intimidating for anyone trying to join the discourse on Julian the Terrible. Here’s my contribution: Fucking ace, Julian. Make those mothers sweat and shit themselves. OK, that hardly qualifies as thoughtful input into the debate on media freedom and the right to […]

There are a lot of ways to respond to something like Annelie Botes’ stated aversion to black people. My initial one didn’t rise to anything worthy of reproduction. However, the reality is that her views are shared by a significant portion of the population. Except in the case that those people’s fears are realised, and […]

The belief that black South Africans are incapable of anything but fraternal goodwill towards other black Africans is an article of political faith for many in government.

Oh New Zealand … would something please HAPPEN?!? We humans are Happening People, and “happening” stuff collocates with happy. I see from the etymology that “hap” has a common root in both words: “fortuitous circumstances”, from which we get other terms like mishap. The guys in SA just don’t know how lucky they are with […]

When a woman goes into a hospital to have a baby, and is told that unless she agrees to being sterilised the doctors will not assist her, what should she do? Or when she goes in and is asked to sign a form for a Caesarean and comes out womb-less and confused what recourse does […]

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is now the subject matter of an Interpol red notice following a request from Sweden where a warrant for his arrest, based upon charges of rape, has been issued. In addition the United States has also launched a criminal investigation related to the leaking of US government information by […]

This week’s massive release of US diplomatic cables has dominated much of our news space. For some it is a breach of security by traitors. For others it is the act of a hero. The dawn of a new information age. For me it is just another example of us getting played. Not a single […]

Annelie Botes, an Afrikaans author, told Rapport newspaper that she doesn’t like black people, she doesn’t understand them and while she knows that they are people just like her, with the same rights as her she avoids them because she is scared of them. She blames black people for South Africa’s violent crime problem, which […]