Application to al-Qaeda
Today marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York. In 2011, Osama bin Laden was tracked down to his hideout in Pakistan and killed. I applied for the post short...
The Return of Dr Death
“Tickets for an AfriForum event in Pretoria featuring controversial former apartheid-era military doctor Dr Wouter Basson have sold out ahead of Friday's event, where he is expected to share his perso...
If you can’t beat them, join them – then beat them
I live near the M4 north of Durban and for the last few days I've listened to police sirens wailing up and down the freeway between Ballito and the city, waking the neighbour's hateful baby and settin...
How Home Affairs turned me into an incel
You think Odysseus had trouble finding his way home? Please, that was nothing. Try finding your way through the labyrinth of conflicting and often outdated information provided by home affairs, AI, im...
Xylophobia – a fear of foreigners playing xylophones
With xenophobia kicking off again, here's a column I wrote 11 years ago almost to the day.
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The warnings started appearing on Facebook on Tuesday. It might have been Monday. When yo...
Does this mean Woolies no longer sells bomber jackets?
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Ramaphosa runs out of buck to pass
“The Constitutional Court on Friday ruled in favour of the EFF, determining that Parliament acted unlawfully when it voted in December 2022 to dismiss the Section 89 Independent Panel report regarding...
Big Geordi steps up
Dear Geordin Hill-Lewis,
Congratulations on your stunning ascendancy to the very top of the DA. Is this something you aspired to or were you pushed? No matter. The main thing is that you are there, s...
Tiger, Tiger burning out – Another lie in the rough
Dear Tiger Woods,
Congratulations on smashing up your car for the fourth time since 2009! I have friends who haven't so much as had a fender-bender in 30 years of driving. Then again, I have other fr...
Property prayers answered for some
I should probably be writing about the steamy three-way that's going on in the Middle East, but there are times when those of us who live in civilised nations need to avert their eyes when the more pr...
Willie or Won’t He? Conservation through the barrel of a gun
Dear Comrade Minister Willie Aucamp,
Congratulations! You have barely had time to settle into your well-padded ergonomically designed executive office chair and have already put out a hit on at least...
Durban roars into the top 20
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