Vaccines are dividing us – and not a moment too soon
One of the more positive spinoffs of the uncivil war between the vaccinated and the anti-vaxxers is that we as a species are being divided. If ever wedges needed to be driven, it's between friends and...
Mad skills and dodgy ministers
I was going to write about the cabinet reshuffle but, upon closer reflection, realised that the entire unprincipled affair was uninspiring and unworthy of satirical scrutiny. Not even beer could motiv...
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s charmed and chequered political life
Comrade Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has served in the executive for almost 20 years, kicking off as minister of home affairs, then moving to correctional services and, finally, defence, where she remained...
Convincing anti-vaxxers to get shot
A small herd of well-heeled anti-vaxxers and middle-aged men who took too much acid when they were young flounced down the Sea Point promenade on Saturday, mewling and whining and waving their silly l...
Well, that was a weird attempted coup
Halfway decent insurrectionists generally target government facilities and take over the state broadcaster. Ours targeted Shoprite and took over the bottle stores. Also, coup plotters usually rely on ...
Dear Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla…
Wow! You guys sure can put on some good television! The burning cars! The scurrying looters! I haven't watched anything this exciting since Eugene Terre'Blanche fell off his horse. It's a drama of epi...
The watts and volts of making easy money
When I was growing up, nobody told me the only way to get rich is to make things that people needed. Or, better yet, hire other people to make them. Were my parents too busy to point this out? How did...
WHO let the boozehounds out
Dear World Health Organization,
I recently came across your draft global alcohol action plan for 2022-2030 and might I say what a fine piece of work it is too. There was one particular paragraph that...
Swazi heads will roll
News that Eswatini's despotic King Mswati III has fled to South Africa after pro-democracy protests broke out reminded me of a letter I wrote to his equally delightful brother, Prince Mahlaba, eleven ...
We’re jabbin’, jabbin’, And I hope you like jabbin’, too
I never expected to hear back from the government after I registered on their vaccine site. I mean, this is the government, right? They only reach out when they want our money, blind trust or vote.
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Hot and cold dogs at the Chinese takeaway
Yep, it's that time of year again. Here's a piece I wrote a few years ago. Nothing has changed.
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Oh, to be in the ancient Chinese prefecture-level city of Yulin right n...
Dear Comrade President Cyril Ramaphosa the First…
Well done on reminding us that members of parliament are people, too. Real people with real feelings. If you tickle them, do they not laugh? If you cut them, do they not bleed? If you pay them R100 00...