On Wednesday SA Rugby’s President Oregan Hoskins received a written demand from one of South Africa’s leading labour attorneys, Jacques Jansen of Jansens Inc, advising SA Rugby that they have received a mandate from personnel and players formerly of the Southern Spears, to recover unpaid salaries, leave pay, notice pay and outstanding bonuses from SA […]
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PW Botha & SA Rugby — steeped in the past or doomed for the future?
The Krokodil is well known for his Crossing the Rubicon speech in 1985 in which Botha was widely expected to announce new reforms. Instead, he refused to give in to pressure for concessions to the black population including the release of Nelson Mandela. His defiance of international opinion in this speech led to further isolation […]
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SA Rugby’s dirty laundry just gets dirtier………now with audio
http://www.pmg.org.za/node/12721SA Rugby Super 14 franchise participation agreement: six franchises Last week Tuesday, SA Rugby’s president was caught on tape, flanked by his SA Rugby chairman, Mpumelelo Tshume, telling pork pies. Not one eeny-teeny porkie for which you might be inclined to say, “Oops, sorry,” but three whoppers and a most hurtful and disparaging remark on […]
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SA Rugby President spits dummy out in Parliament
SA Rugby Super 14 Franchise Participation Agreement 1 January 2006 – 31 May 2010What a day it has been today. A real eye opener on the professionalism of the Danny Jordaan LOC FIFA unit, compared to the amateur hour of SA Rugby’s Mickey Mouse unit headed up by Hoskins. All of this took place in […]
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SA Rugby: Administration of subterfuge and oppression
Almost three years ago to the day, on June 8 2005, SA Rugby’s presidents’ council put in motion a unanimous council resolution — a transformation charter of sorts that was a groundbreaking plan to fast-track transformation and representativeness in rugby in South Africa. It has been declared that the game of rugby is in peril […]
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The last blog
This is my last blog on Thought Leader. I never thought the day would come when the tentacles of oppression would silence freedom of expression, but as long as I have family in this country, the increasingly sinister, menacing and credible threats from the ANC, Jacob Zuma and their legions of thuggish operatives cannot be […]
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Sacred cows on the spit
Sigh. The lot of the writer is a difficult one. The comments on my previous offering have prompted me to write a follow-up post to another piece I wrote about six months ago. For the record, I receive at least three emails from irate readers chastising me for my callous disregard for sensitivity around most […]
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Is Jacob Zuma entitled to more wives?
I have always worked on the assumption that for every topic there is one individual in the world who is the ultimate expert on it. Of course the subject has to be narrow enough for an absolute expert to exist. By my reckoning this should, in all fairness, preclude the rest of us from ever […]
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Gods with stethoscopes
So I’m walking into a hospital recently when an interesting sign catches my eye: “Designated smoking area”. Nothing out of the ordinary there; I see signs like these everywhere. But of course this is a hospital, a place in which there are rooms filled with people breathing through holes in their necks because their lungs […]
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E-prime makes speakers take responsibility
Being forced to use the active voice and cutting the verb “to be” from our speech can nudge us towards being more accountable — and clearer
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Punctured by a pothole
Charmain Naidoo was sailing along thinking about cow burps and methane and a friend’s lunch when – bam – the sound of rubber hitting the road
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AI and Africa: Threats and opportunities
The ability to describe the fourth industrial revolution in local languages presents an opportunity to invent them from – and for – local contexts