I had already started writing my angry views about my president unzipped and exposed. When I started, I wrote it as a man, a black man, Saartjie Baartman’s brother, as someone raised by my grandmother with a moral stick. And I had joined in solidarity with those who are angry about the way President Jacob […]
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Hanging out with Zuma
Is it racism or is it art? What is this thing? What the hell has happened to us as a country during this last week? Whatever it is, I’m afraid there’s no going back. Never again would an innocent phrase such as “honorary member” be spoken in Parliament or anywhere else without someone in the […]
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Kind regards or best wishes?
It remains a sad fact of life as a social animal that every encounter with another human being presents an opportunity for being misunderstood. This is why social events are awkward, as are greetings of any kind, hugs in general, mouth kissing, questions over coffee vs drinks – and email sign-offs. Have you ever reached […]
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Zuma only has his cockups to blame
The orgiastic furore surrounding the depiction of President Jacob Zuma’s genitalia in an infamous painting, The Spear, is yet to reach a climax in the public square. The painting has power for one reason, and one reason alone: it crystallised a public narrative in pictorial form. As I have written here before, sex is controversially […]
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SA Rugby has it wrong
I am, if you have not noticed by my past articles, a rugby enthusiast. I have had the privilege of coaching this game at some very competitive and talented levels. I usally revel in the July rugby week which is the U18 Craven Week, named after SA rugby legend Dr Danie Craven. However I am […]
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SA’s looking a lot like Zimbabwe
Though former president Thabo Mbeki was often guilty, to a fault, of defending his administration, nothing could have prepared South Africans for the inappropriate appointments and point-blank refusal to accept wrongdoing among those who occupy positions of power or who are allied to current President Jacob Zuma. It’s as if a totally different set of […]
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Animal activists can’t see the bull for the dust
These animal activists, what a fuss they make about matters beyond their ken. So filled with neo-colonial, white racist presumptuousness. They arise from scoffing their Steers burgers (herds of cattle, eyes rolling at the stench of imminent slaughter, slashing and trampling in frantic but futile attempt at escape) and Kentucky Fried Chicken (a shoebox existence […]
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SA Rugby, now what?
Congratulations to the Australian Rugby Union who against all odds have managed (read carefully and meticulously choreographed) to bring the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, especially when ARU has 80 000 registered rugby players and SA Rugby more than 500 000, over 5 times the number of players in Australia. SA Rugby has had 4 years […]
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Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium: The good news and the very bad news
The good news is that the South African government and Eastern Cape government, along with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, have collectively spent R2 billion in developing a magnificent and spectacular multipurpose sports facility in the Eastern Cape for soccer and rugby. This excludes the billions going into support infrastructures to ensure the stadium becomes an […]
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Door-to-door election reflections
It’s a Saturday. The sun is unforgivably hot. Probably it’s the absence of an umbrella on my part. How could I? None of the ANC volunteers can afford an umbrella. It would be rude and unfair of me to have one covering my head alone while others are left at the mercy of the sun […]
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Free trade not always free
Firstly the idea of a free market stems from the idea of personal freedom. That no-one should be able to decide for you what you do, how you make a living and to demand that you pay them any part of your income. Obviously this is qualified by the facts that the rights of other […]
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Everything you wanted to know about SA Rugby’s Axis of Influence Peddlars
or You are about to be exposed to South African rugby’s Axis of Evil, its administration, where rules and agreements are made and signed off by SA Rugby and despite their creation, are flouted with impunity, as also the SA Rugby constitution which requires all unions to uphold agreements made at the President’s Council and […]