A buddy from the SABC dropped into the Dorsbult this week and obviously had had one zanufication-on-the-rocks too many when he recounted some of Sunday Times new editor Mathatha Tsedu’s Zimbabwe exploits.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development is the biggest thing to hit Jozi since the Jameson Raid — considering Krugersdorp and Sandton are about equidistant from the city centre — and next week’s shindig has driven the citizenry even crazier than usual.
This has been a depressing week for sports fans at the Dorsbult. Firstly that fat fool Pieter van Zyl runs on to the field and flattens the ref. Then Rian Oberholzer compounds the matter by saying: ”This assault perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors-eating, brandy-drinking supporter…”
The boys at the bar could not help chuckling at former SABC news head Snuki ”Moyo” Zikalala’s article on the Mail & Guardian in the Sowetan this week. Moyo wrote the article, he assures us, ”in his personal capacity as a journalist”. This is a very flattering self-assessment.
Lemmer wonders, sometimes, if there aren’t a few local academics who look back wistfully to the halcyon days of the Eighties, when students were forever protesting, boycotting lectures and generally taking the spotlight away from the shenanigans of the staff.
Oom Krisjan has noticed that those who kept the red flag flying here have been rather quiet of late. In fact, there’s been a suspicion that they’ve all turned into creditcard-carrying communists, what with central committee member Jeff Radebe being in the vanguard of the privatisation.
A letter from IFP Youth Brigade national organiser PC Mashego to the manager of Standard Bank’s Simmonds Street (Jozi) branch was inexplicably delivered to the Dorsbult Bar…
Being a king is a tough task and you can’t even quit. A quick glance through history shows there are some awful ways to lose your job — most often by losing your head. But in the olden days no one questioned what you wanted to do.
The news that Snuki Zikalala is leaving the SABC for pastures new was greeted with much regret in the Dorsbult. We regulars have missed his enthusiastic mangling of all the official languages since the former labour reporter was kicked upstairs to become an executive editor…
Not so long ago Oom Krisjan was ruminating about why the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has become involved with the Miss South Africa contest. No reasonable answer has yet been heard in the confines of the Dorsbult Bar…