Better than sex
Here's something to keep you going until my next book hits the shelves at the end of the year. It's available in the Contraband section on this site. You can buy it or you can have me come around to y...
Last chance to amend the amendment
Are you earning a bit of cash renting out a room or property on Airbnb?
If so, today – June 11 – is your last chance to have a say on the Tourism Amendment Act before it becomes law.
The amendme...
Dear Alabama Senate
Congratulations on passing what is being hailed as the most restrictive abortion bill in the United States! Me and my buddies are gonna slaughter a lamb right now to celebrate the sanctity and preserv...
Losers, weepers
Today, 367 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...
The Ben Trovato Files
Who among us doesn't remember satirist Ben Trovato's outrageously subversive trilogy of letters to and replies from the rich, famous and downright dangerous? Well, the madness continues as the letters...
Happy V-Day
Here’s something I wrote at a time when my so-called marriage was at its best.
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Brenda said
she wants me to take her out on Valentine’s Day. This puts me in a bit of a
dile...
Cut & Run
The only power Eskom has is the power to unite South Africans against a common enemy. That's quite an achievement. Read more in today's column in The Citizen. If you can't find a copy, you can always ...
Care for a little whine with that?
South Africa has overtaken Britain as the world’s foremost nation in whining and complaining. Service is too slow. Crime is too high. Standards are too low. Too many taxis. Not enough sex. Too many w...
King of Spades Screws Queen of Diamonds
Our well-padded mining minister, Gwede Mantashe, opened the 25th Mining Indaba in Cape Town today. Sadly, I wasn't there to applaud his hollow assurances that South Africa was safe for investors and t...
One for the road – do it for your country
I long for the day that we are number one in the world. I'm not talking about jejune frivolities like rugby or cricket, but something far more significant. Not too long ago we were almost hailed as th...
Cut & Run
My column is in today's Citizen, what with it being Wednesday and all. If you can't get a copy of the newspaper, you can always subscribe. A single edition costs R7. If you can't afford that, give Bos...