Hunting – Past & Present
(Culture)
With the arrival of the information age and its capacity to transmit bespoke imagery and information to millions of people, many of whom are often divorced or inured to the [...]
Read More- Posted on 26th Jul 2010
by Hannes Wessels - 4 comments
World Cup Diary
(Culture)
Well, it all started on a Friday morning. Sky News’ best asset, a man named Jeremy Thompson who is every bit a gentleman as he is impartial, interviewed a chap [...]
Read More- Posted on 1st Jul 2010
by Simon Reader - 0 comments
No City for Old Men
(Culture)
His name is Wyndham Montbottom St. George Caincross. In Westminster he’s called Lord Caincross. If you regard a man by a Randian single-minded pursuit of success, and you believe success [...]
Read More- Posted on 3rd Jun 2010
by Simon Reader - 3 comments
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
(Culture)
I recently achieved the one year milestone in Johannesburg; the foothills of my journey to the summit, the precipice still very much ahead of me. As with most first time [...]
Read More- Posted on 5th May 2010
by Andre Roux - 2 comments
Pre-World Cup Diary: Scoundrels & Dead Horses
(Culture)
In 2002, amidst a famine he was complicit in arranging, then ZANU-PF Information Minister and party spokesperson Jonathon Moyo crossed the border in his Chinese 4 x 4 with trailer, [...]
Read More- Posted on 5th May 2010
by Simon Reader - 2 comments
The Annals of Shithead
(Culture)
Contributions to this blog, in the past few weeks, have focused on the mood of apprehension running through South African society. Aptly they have expressed the concern currently felt throughout [...]
Read More- Posted on 29th Apr 2010
by Andre Roux - 2 comments
Wat sou De La Rey gedoen het?
(Culture)
“far better to use the top of the palate, best leave the back of the throat for masticatory purposes!”
Die stem. Die Matie, die swartgevaar.
The Afrikaner is being pushed into a [...]
- Posted on 21st Apr 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 9 comments
Easter Diary
(Culture)
The new 12th man is monumental. Something we dare not speak of, like skateboarding, is a grudging respect for Australians. An extract: an abandoned Greek baby is found outside the [...]
Read More- Posted on 9th Apr 2010
by Simon Reader - 1 comments
Missing: real food
(Culture)
Higher yields, insect-proofing, more vitamins per 100g,fresh from the fields, green friendly giant…. blah blah.
The ill-effects of gargantuan-scale crop production are not without marked effect on society.
When last did you [...]
- Posted on 7th Apr 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 7 comments