Losers, weepers
Today, 369 years ago, Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Table Bay and shouted, “Finders, keepers!” And that’s why it became known as Founders Day.
Alhough the Khoikhoi and San were taking decisions by co...
Rush to join the Memorable Order of Tinfoil Hats
It's astounding how much this so-called pandemic has revealed about the way people behave during a crisis. The compassion. The solidarity. The gibbering, eye-bubbling lunacy.
I watched a clip of mo...
No more pura vida
My holiday in Costa Rica is over and I am on my way home. Three months have flown by in the blink of a fish on a bicycle. Since the concept of time has become meaningless, feel free to make up your ow...
The king is dead … long live the king!
News that the King of the Zulu nation died on Friday reminded me of the correspondence Goodwill Zwelithini and I enjoyed over the years. Well, I enjoyed it. Also, it was very much a one-sided affair. ...
Nursery crimes and other filth
The news this week that publication and sales of six Dr Seuss books will be discontinued because of imagery now deemed to be "racist and insensitive" reminded me of something I once wrote.
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Bathtime for ballies
These social media algorithms, man. Disturbingly out of whack. Then again, what isn't these days?
An advert popped up on my feed the other day. I hate that this kind of talk is considered normal. Pop...
Jabless in Central America
I would like to know where my bloody vaccine is. I check my email every day and still no invitation from the government. Am I not vulnerable enough? Does my demographic not exist in sufficiently large...
An open letter to Carl Knight – last of the great white hunters
Dear Carl Knight,
When I got wind of your courageous exploits, I felt I had to congratulate you. For a start, you are British. We adore the British – they are our second favourite colonialists. The...
Warning: Outbreak of mass stupidity – contagious
I recently broke one of my cardinal rules, which is unusual because I don't believe in rules, let alone cardinals. It wasn't the “don't drink tequila and suggest marriage” rule. That one, I don't brea...
The breast and worst of Valentine’s Day
A flashback...
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Most women, on Valentine's Day, are quite happy to wake up and find a couple of hundred bucks on the bedside table. But not Brenda. Oh, no. She woke up and said she felt lik...
Dear Jacob Zuma
I never thought I would write you another letter, and yet here we are again.
It is truly sad to see an innocent old man being so unjustly hounded by judges, magistrates, prosecutors, non-government...
Let the vax speak for themselves
The global scramble for Covid vaccines is becoming a little undignified. Show some class, people. Let's try to keep this fight clean.
Right now, vaccines are all anyone seems to care about. Well, t...