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Straight & 2 Beers: Lie and damn the consequences
Johannesburg - One of the terms that grinds my titties is consequence management.
This meaningless term entered popular discourse with politicians eager to fool the...
But seriously: Masters must be missing a caddie par excellence
Johannesburg - As I write this, some of the groups had already teed off on day one of the 85th Masters tournament in Augusta...
But seriously: Forget Bafana, we have many other problems to fix
Johannesburg - It is called the beautiful game, but it has an ugly and irrepressible dark side.
It is a blessing that in South Africa...
Straight & 2 Beers: Cyril’s decision defies logic
Johannesburg - Every Covid-19 briefing by President Cyril Ramaphosa is a big deal.
Boozers and abazalwane quaked in their boots, fearing the president would deny...
Full Circle: Beware of pathetic, gold-digging men
Johannesburg - As far as I know, men were raised to be providers – well the men I know. In the Stone Age, they...
The burden of black women
Johannesburg - Growing up, I was made to remember my grandmother as a coloured woman from the Eastern Cape who spoke isiXhosa.
Recently, my mother...
Land of plenty hobbled by the incompetence
Johannesburg - Where else in the world would an informal settlement develop in a month with hundreds, sometimes thousands of occupants, yet a parastatal...
Straight & 2 Beers: Mental slavery is hard to shake
Johannesburg - The ghost of Western colonialism dusted itself off and walked into a mall in Gauteng this week.
A proud African man entered a...
Tech integration is a prerequisite
Johannesburg - It is without doubt that the world has seen a paradigm shift towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution characterised by a confluence of...
But seriously: Politics of class and liberation
Johannesburg - There are words that have become synonymous with celebrating being black, especially black women in this era of the hashtag.
Thick is one...
