I was having breakfast on Friday at the newly revamped Doppio Zero in Bedfordview when I received an email from HassleFree (he who loves to remind me when I have taken a day or two off blogging) telling me about a new reality show they are putting together in the USA. The show will be [...]

The search was not easy, after all it is hard enough to find Mbeki speaking about our country and its problems. About the rest of the world he always has an opinion, how they should conduct their affairs, where they should and shouldn’t get involved. So imagine our surprise when we found him answering hard [...]

The decision by the University of Free State to close the Reitz Hostel is stirring up quite a bit of attention once again. Politicians, as they are known to do, are scrambling to get their names and opinions into the papers as they each express their views on the subject.
The Reitz Hostel at the UFS [...]

Mr Delivery? No, I am not referring to the service you call on a cold rainy Sunday night when even a trip to the local take-out seems too much to bare, I am referring to the man who was to lead us to the promised land. Nelson Mandela had prevented a civil war, lead us [...]

It has been a tough week; the violence has spread to the mines and even begun to rear its ugly head in Cape Town. I am emotionally drained just thinking about what thousands of people are going through at the moment and have had great difficulty in finding anything light to blog about… it seems [...]