Wow time flies when you are having fun, buying dogs, saving the world, preventing an out break of Swine Flu and solving the worlds economic crisis… And all that while you are sitting in your pajamas blogging! I was of course referring to me, President Obama has had a much tougher time than that. The [...]

A few months ago I was interviewed by a journalist from Chicago University about the impact certain issues would have on the outcome of the elections, issues like the Scorpions, JZ’s trial and a few others. Here is a brief extract from my response…
It seems impossible (to me) to comprehend that the electorate cannot see [...]

Things are unfolding pretty much as expected, the ANC majority is climbing towards the two thirds, the DA have put on a pretty good showing, the minority parties have all but disappeared and the only disappointment seems to be COPE, whose support just didn’t seem to materialise.
Will they stick around for another 5 years and [...]

9:30am and Sasha and I are standing in line to vote. The queue is pretty long and I am considering telling them I am over 65 and going to the front. I am glad I brought her with because this vote is about her future!
9:55 getting closer, thinking back to the first year I voted [...]

So we are about to find out if Nandos is really chicken! The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) are in a bit of a “flap” over the Nandos radio commercial featuring their esteemed leader Julius Malema. I am not really sure what they are so “clucking” mad about? Maybe they don’t like people making fun of [...]