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
Missing: British Identity
(Culture)
“This is our country, our land, and our lifestyle. If you are not happy—then Leave.”
At last a politician in possession of testicles and a backbone. By definition then, not possibly [...]
- Posted on 23rd Feb 2010
by Guest Contribution - 6 comments
To Debate: Breathing the oxygen of argumentation!
(Culture)
During the days of pimple infested schooling there were two no-go zones:
The debating team.
The debating society.
Anyone with even the slightest ambition of being part of the cool cats, jocks or [...]
- Posted on 22nd Feb 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 0 comments
An Ellis Park Outing
(Culture)
The streets have begun to chill in the mornings, and the dead leaves to crackle underneath my footsteps on my walk to work. The thin air has regained some of [...]
Read More- Posted on 17th Feb 2010
by Andre Roux - 2 comments
All You Need…..Is a Slap!
(Culture)
James Jackson writes from London…
“Make a child smile—kill a counselor.”
A passable joke and a admirable sentiment. Face it, a kid cannot even fart these days without being offered counseling or [...]
- Posted on 15th Feb 2010
by Guest Contribution - 2 comments
How South Africa’s Foreign Policy Was Born….
(Culture)
It is an evening south of winter – early September 2005 – in the nation’s political capital. Purple bulbs of Jacaranda line the avenues of the more exclusive suburbs; the [...]
Read More- Posted on 9th Feb 2010
by Simon Reader - 1 comments
What is it with being black?
(Culture)
I am black and I am African! Oh my God!
I will understand if there is to be a ‘blacklash’ after I am through with my contribution. I am about to [...]
- Posted on 14th Jan 2010
by MacKenzie Tafira - 2 comments
Hermanus Diary
(Culture)
On the day white Johannesburg liberal scoundrels were preparing to depart their Ponzi – schemed Minaret replicas to attend the Polo in Plettenberg Bay, I was at the coal face [...]
Read More- Posted on 13th Jan 2010
by Simon Reader - 0 comments