Tap-dancing gorillas and tenants from hell
Did you know that gorillas make up "food songs" while they eat? A German scientist discovered this "fun new fact" while working with the primates in the Congo. I don't think it's a fun fact at all. I ...
Rent boy goes west
Mosquitoes have begun sending out the recces early this year. They're coming in at high altitude late at night – not in packs, but in pairs. They split up once they've gained entrance to the bedroom. ...
Crafting a new revolution
There is so much to write about this week. The crisis at the country's universities. Oscar Pistorius' release into controlled captivity. Britain's unseemly fawning over the president of one of the wor...
No wealth and common as dirt – Durban takes the lead
Parties exploded across Durban last week when Edmonton withdrew its bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, leaving this glittering jewel of the east coast the sole bidder.
It should be said, though...
Can’t see the house for the family tree – A flashback
Home for the holidays. It sounds like such a benign, cheerful concept. Yet it is only once you are there that the occasion mutates into a short-term psychological evaluation in an institute for the cr...
Stumbleweeding Through Life
I hope there is some kind of predetermined plan here, and that it isn't all just loosely held together by a series of random events, because I cannot figure out why, exactly, I am writing this in a no...
The Prodigal Son Returns
Hello, Durban. It’s good to be back.No, I haven’t been in prison. I was living in Cape Town for a while. This is my hometown. I’m from the wrong side of the Umgeni. It’s where I grew up, lost my virgi...