Peter Marais seems incapable of avoiding making waves in the visdorpie. Not content with undermining the Mother City’s attempt to make the place the pink capital of Africa he has decided to rile the dorp’s large Muslim population…
Two Mancunian pranksters have been entertaining the English sporting public over the past few months with their escapades which have turned them into minor celebrities. What they do is sneak themselves into sports events, circumvent the security systems and then pretend to be players.
THE Government Communication and Information Service is trying to live up to its name. It launched its first Communicator’s Handbook recently, and a quick perusal over a few dops showed the manne from the Dorsbult Bar why our leaders and our leader writers are so often at odds…
IT’S the week for romance, that boy with his bow – and timely reminders that love can sometimes mean you have to say you’re sorry…
Here in the Groot Marico life goes on at quite a leisurely pace – and that’s how we like it. Oom Krisjan thus feels great sympathy for Minister of Health Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who has been rushing from pillar to post to prevent Aids activists implementing court decisions on the antiretroviral, nevirapine…
For years the Post Office was the epitome of government incompetence; filled with jobsworths who would as soon spit in your eye as give you the time of day. But, since privatisation, everything has changed…
A couple of weeks ago, the Mail & Guardian‘s Stefaans Brummer wrote a satirical piece that lampooned Public Protector Selby Baqwa’s office as providing a cleansing service…
Not that long ago, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was the mass movement arm of the tripartite alliance, striking fear into the hearts of capitalist pigs with its threats of, well, striking…
A COUPLE of weeks ago (April 5) Oom Krisjan directed readers to a website that purports to prove that no Boeing hit the Pentagon on September 11 last year…
THE African National Congress Youth League certainly has wide-ranging interests. When not getting involved in the serious matters of schooling, politics and economics – just a couple of weeks ago they were hosting Cubans to discuss closer ties with Fidel Castro’s government – the boys in the league like their light relief…