In honour of Heritage Day, I have decided to rerun an article I wrote some years back on the People You Find Around Your Braai. For those who read it and remember it “Enjoy the refresher” (This means ‘don’t write to me and bitch and moan’) and for the rest, enjoy the day off on [...]

So at the beginning of the year I undertook one of my many resolutions (some of which I actually keep) to do some good this year. Well I haven’t wasted the entire year but possibly I could have done a little better. With Yom Kippur around the corner and the year rapidly winding down, I [...]

Today is probably no different to any other day in South Africa, but for some reason today’s news stories just seem a little more bizarre. I am not running down the country, I am not spreading rumors, I am not being irresponsible… I am just overwhelmed today.
Here are just a few of todays headlines…

Ice-cream vendor [...]

Seen that on a T Shirt in the capital city a few times! Roughly translated it says “Speak Afrikaans or keep your mouth shut”. As the Pretoria / Tshwane debate was raging in an out of the courts yesterday and on and off the airways on all the radio stations, I was taking some pretty [...]

This article can be found at TIME MAGAZINE
Saturday, Jun. 20, 2009
South Africa’s Rape Crisis: 1 in 4 Men Say They’ve Done It
By Megan Lindow / Cape Town
South Africans received a horrifying measure of just how bad their country’s rape crisis is with the release this week of a study in which more than a quarter [...]