My kingdom for a kidney
I have been ill this past week.
At first, I never realised I was ill. I thought I was merely hung over. The symptoms were the same. Dizzy, weeping sores, swollen groin glands. But nobody stays hung o...
Gissajob, Lenny!
Far-right leader's payday loans firm
A WHITE supremacist suspected of carrying out a bombing campaign in Africa has been found by the Daily Star Sunday - running a payday loans firm in Cambridgeshire
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From the canned hunting archives …
VANDERBIJLPARK, 15 June 2009 — It is the end of the road for South Africa’s 123 lion breeders and 3 000 canned lions.
This follows a verdict in the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein that these se...
An Open Letter to Melissa Bachman
Dearest Melissa,
I just wanted to say how much I love that photo of you posing next to the lion you killed in South Africa.
The picture has gone around the world and everyone thinks you are absolute...
To: Emoya Luxury Hotel & Spa
Dear Sir/Madam,
For a long time, I have been looking for a unique shantytown accommodation experience because I don't believe you can call yourself an African until you have spent at least one night ...
An open letter to Dr Wouter Basson
Dear Wouter,
I thought you might need a few words of support while trying to convince the Health Professions Council that you are not some depraved monster who isn't fit to slice people open and fidd...
An open letter to Julius Malema
Dear Right Honourable Excellency Julius Sello Malema the First, Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Ruler of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of Coloni...
For the love of thugby
I inadvertently got caught up in the Sharks victory parade on Wednesday. It was like being on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées on the 25th of August, 1944, as French and American troops swept through the...
Pravin’s mid-term sleight of hand
In his mid-term budget review this week, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan … hey, wake up! This is important, dammit. It’s your money we’re talking about here.
What’s that? You don’t care? You’re suffe...
Thinking about drinking like an African
A few days ago, President Zuma said we should stop thinking like Africans, although I am fairly sure that he meant to say we should stop drinking like Africans. It would have made more sense. Anyway, ...
A Homicidal High
There is so much going on in this wonderful country of ours that I scarcely know where to begin.
Perhaps I could start with the murders. There are so many that, when you sit down with the newspapers,...
An open letter to the matric class of 2013
Dear adultlings,
Congratulations on making it to the end of the beginning. Twelve years of being bullied, belittled and, in several thousand cases, banged up. A South African education prepares you f...