Straight & 2 Beers: Time for us to smell the coffee
A friend recently told me if he could, he would leave South Africa and pitch his tent in another country. However, he wouldn’t say exactly which one he thought... Read more.
MEC has no bedside manners
I admit I was not a model patient but my hospital stay was memorable. For more than two months, I was stuck in bed. There’s little I remember during the two weeks... Read more.
Straight & 2 Beers: No happy ending for Enoch
One of the few good men I know is my former colleague, Kevin. I worked with him for years and never heard him utter an expletive. The eldest in a team of nine, Kev... Read more.
OPINION: Little cents in economy of crime
I never lived in nor visited any of the homelands during apartheid. However, I worked in Mahikeng a decade ago. Even then, people in the capital city spoke fondly... Read more.
Zama zama crackdown will wane
The year was 2000 and we were all agog over the Y2K millennium bug. Apparently, the world’s computers would struggle to recognise the triple zeros of the new year... Read more.
Prepaid guys don’t get the girl
I can never resist the charms of a beautiful woman. That’s my weakness. So, when such a lady stopped me at the mall, I screeched to a halt and gave her my audience.... Read more.
Tossers in charge must flip coin
We’ve all flipped a coin at some stage of our lives. Coin flipping was known to the Romans as navia aut caput (“ship or head”), as some coins had a ship on... Read more.
Tossers in charge must flip coin
We’ve all flipped a coin at some stage of our lives. Coin flipping was known to the Romans as navia aut caput (“ship or head”), as some coins had a ship on... Read more.
Taverns: SA’s new killing fields
A new crime menace has caught the police and country by surprise. Tavern shootings have become our new killing fields. Patrons are having a drink, catching up in... Read more.
Cele’s meltdown won’t be last
It was pitiful and embarrassing. A politician in the doldrums, clearly out of his depth and clueless about how to run the crime-fighting machinery under his control.... Read more.
