So, anyway.
I just wanted to thank everyone who emailed me and wrote to the Sunday Tribune expressing their outrage/condolences/relief after the newspaper gave me the boot. I find it a bit odd that the paper chos...
The End?
There is a reason more and more people are reluctant to answer their phone if they don't recognise the number. It's because they know the odds against it being good news are staggeringly high. You hav...
Whale meat again …
“More than 120 pregnant whales were slaughtered in the latest Japanese whale hunt in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, reigniting calls for Australia to step up efforts to stop the annual killing spree. A ...
The breast and worst of Valentine's Day
Most women on Valentine's Day are quite happy to wake up and find a couple of hundred rand on the bedside table. But not Brenda. Oh, no. She woke up and wanted new breasts. “No problem,” I said, getti...
A day at the races
I see the J&B Met is being run in Cape Town today, except it's not called that any more. It's now the Sun Met. I don't know what happened to the whisky people. I attended the race twice. Once in ...
A letter to our next president
A flashback to a letter I wrote to NDZ six months ago.
Dead elephants tell no tales
US President Donald Trump is reversing an Obama-era ban on hunters importing trophies of elephants killed in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Are his sons planning another hunt? Here's a letter I wrote to the lit...
Amazing Grace
Dear Comrade Grace,
Congratulations on achieving what nobody else has been able to in 37 years – get Robert Mugabe to stand down. This is especially remarkable at a time when it was becoming increasin...
How to Stay Alive
Everything is going up, including the murder rate. But, at 74 violent deaths a day, the price of human life remains cheap. I thought now might be a good time to share a chapter from my book, Ben Trova...
An open letter to Bill Gates
Dear Bill,
Please accept my heartfelt condolences. The news must have come as a terrible shock and my prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time. Nobody deserves to wake up in the...
Under the influencer
I recently turned down a job paying R10 000.
Saying no to the equivalent of fifty cases of beer made me so ill that I couldn't get out of bed for three days. I need not even have spent it all on beer....