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…
THE post is sometimes very slow in these parts of the Groot Marico, so a wonderful epistle from Coen Vermaak, leader of the Boerestaat Party, dated February 9, has only recently arrived on Oom Krisjan’s barstool…
Here in the Groot Marico life goes on at quite a leisurely pace ? and that’s how we like it
Sex sells, that’s what the planners told the Democratic Alliance before the party’s conference last weekend. At least, that’s what Oom Krisjan presumes the politicians were told – otherwise he’s at a bit of a loss to explain some of the shenanigans at the event…
Events up north dominated the South African media this week and, since watching Uncle Bob duly win Zimbabwe’s version of Big Brother was better than watching South African sports teams get another klap, the topic dominated conversation in the Dorsbult bar too…
Stephanie Merritt MARRYING THE MISTRESS by Joanna Trollope (Bloomsbury) What is the point of Joanna Trollope novels? The plot of her latest involves, as you might expect, extra-marital liaisons, fraught filial relationships and the minutiae of family life, renders them utterly banal and manages to stretch this banality to fill 311 pages. Do people find […]