I was listening to 702 this morning and caught a few sound bites from a press release by Irvin Khoza the boss of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup to be held in South Africa. In it, he made it clear, that it is every-one’s (even mine) responsibility to ensure [...]

So life is slowly returning to normal in the Addict household. Three weeks away seemed like such a long time when we planned it but flew past in the blink of an eye. It was Disneyland, a cruise through the Caribbean and finally a few days in Washington. There is nothing like a bit of [...]

Generally I am not a big pie fan and right at the bottom of that list is my least favourite “humble pie”. So when it was dished up to me today in the form of a personal telephone call from Gidon Novick, the Joint CEO: Comair Limited (kulula.com) I felt it only appropriate to blog [...]

Ok, here they are, the official crime statistics for South Africa. No, I did not make this up or fish it from Wikipedia, these are the official figures. Now someone somewhere is patting himself on the back and congratulating himself on a job well done because murders have plummeted to only 18 487 or 38,6 [...]

I live in a country that fought for years under the slogan “One Man – One Vote!” but live on a continent that unfortunately has lived with the slogan “One Man – One Vote – Once!” for all too long now. Freedom fighters turned politicians who refuse to relinquish power once attained. Nelson Mandela’s greatest [...]