Zamalek over heritage any day
I hope you all celebrated Heritage Day in true South African style and have since been released on bail or discharged from hospital.
Whether your ancestors were put to death by King Shaka, killed by ...
Run for cover – the glass ceiling is cracking!
Stray women are going to have to be rounded up on the streets and shovelled into positions of power
Protest tourism is big in Paris this year
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23 years later and still on the run
On The Run appeared in the Cape Times 23 years ago today.
Some of you were still at school. The euro had just been introduced. A cellphone featuring a built-in camera was released. Elon Musk h...
To the CEO – Addington Hospital
Dear Comrade Doctor Sir,
I am applying for several positions at your hospital, largely because of the spectacular salaries, the great working hours and the gorgeous nurses who will doubt...
Let’s do it for the women next year
I have come up with my own programme of events to celebrate Women’s Month in 2026. There will be none of the cultural performances, poetry readings and workshops that make this such a dreary month.
W...
Aarto the line or lose your licence
In 2021, the Gauteng High Court found the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (Aarto) unconstitutional and invalid, saying it should be scrapped. Then, 18 months later, the Consti...
Karma comes for Walter Palmer
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn – The Eden Prairie man once known for killing Cecil the Lion is accused of drunk driving, according to charges filed in Hennepin County Court. Walter Palmer was charged earlier this...
Israel vs Iran – Will it go to penalties?
Full of beer and schadenfreude, I reeled away from the telly. Live coverage of sociopathic megalomaniacs hurling missiles at each other is entertaining enough at first, but it pales quickly.
Watchi...
Making Palestine Greta Again
Dear Bibi Netanyahu,
Well done on staving off the audacious raid on Gaza led by the notorious rebel commander Greta Thunberg and 11 of her guerrillas posing as doctors, journalists and politicians. H...
Saving Private Lion – We’ve seen this movie before
“Emaciated lions, open wounds, pens covered in faeces, no shelter in blazing sun, cubs on rubbish dumps, lacerated paws – the images displayed on the screen were shocking. But Douglas Wolhuter of the...
From the Marvi Marmara to the Madleen – Long sail to freedom
“The climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists have set sail for Gaza on a ship aimed at breaking Israel’s siege of the devastated territory, organisers have said. The boat Madleen – op...