Nursery crimes and other filth
No matter how much I drink, I am unable to find any humour in President Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address. The problem is, nothing else strikes me as being particularly funny right now, either. ...
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...
An open letter to Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi
Dear Mr President,
Well
done on successfully hosting a regional conference with the theme Towards a
Common Vision in Managing Southern Africa’s Elephants. Thanks to you, the
visiting heads of state...
Run, Caster, Run
Imagine a brain surgeon so good at what he does that people would rather die than take their brains elsewhere to be repaired. Imagine he was in such demand that all the other brain surgeons were force...
How maths ruined my life
I was appalled
to hear that President Ramaphosa had bestowed a national order on none other
than William Smith, a man with a mastery of a subject that is beyond inhumane.
It was like hearing that the ...
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...
The fast and the furious, the fucked and the feckless
So parliament has approved yet another malevolent piece of legislation. The Aarto Amendment Bill will now be sent to the president to be signed into law. Its full catchy title is the Administrative Ad...
Hooked & Cooked
There has been a flurry of excitement in
shark circles along the east coast.
“Have you heard the news?” said Mr Zambezi.
“Of course not,” said Mr Tiger. “We don’t
have ears.”
“Well, we have i...