Potting the black
"Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has paid $19m to settle charges that it paid ANC front company Chancellor House a $1m "success fee" and $5m in "dividends" in connection with contracts to build two powe...
Rum & Rugby
“BOKKE!”
Excuse me? Are you shouting at me? You, who called the cops because my music was too loud? You, whose bastard dog wakes me every morning? You, who has co-opted a clenched fist salute...
Shoot the subs
I don't usually post other people's stuff, but this email from columnist Giles Coren to sub-editors on the London Times will strike a chord with many who write for newspapers. I know the feeling.
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God is a counter-evolutionary
I don't know whether it was a dream or if I read it somewhere – I think I must have read it because I have lived in South Africa all my life and only have nightmares, not dreams – but I recall somethi...
By your own hand
It was World Suicide Prevention Day last week and it seems only right that I should contribute. Suicide is not a laughing matter. So don't fucking laugh. Okay?
This is a chapter from my best-selling ...
Backwards to the future
Dear Comrade President Zuma,
Congratulations on your narrow escape at the reed dance in Nongoma the other day. I was alarmed to read that hundreds of bare-breasted virgins had become possessed by dem...
Do we panic now or later?
I would like to commend America for alerting its citizens in South Africa to a possible terrorist attack on US interests in our magnificent country. It's important to take care of one's own.
The warn...
India hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2010
And this is what I wrote at the time ...
Well, it all seems to be working out just fine so far. Nobody has died of dysentery, been eaten by a tiger or shot in the head by Naxalite rebels. Sat...
Not much wealth, but certainly common
Something I wrote a few months back.
Parties exploded across Durban when Edmonton withdrew its bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, leaving this glittering jewel of the east coast the sol...
Sum Ting Wong
They were calling it Black Monday. Racists. If anything, it should have been called Yellow Monday. It is, after all, the Chinese who are causing this global financial meltdown. Okay, so it's more of a...
Cheater – The Fastest Mammal on Two Legs
Never mind Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Forget Alan Turing cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code. The hacking of dating site Ashley Madison has done the most damage. If you go outside and listen carefu...