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/ 15 October 2008
Rams Mabote’s open letter to President Kgalema Motlanthe on the stateman’s style of dress.
The time has come for people to stop buying monthly bus and train tickets and rather put their money in gold.
While 9Â 999 Chinese deserve BEE status, one particular operator doesn’t, argues Rams Mabote.
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/ 3 September 2008
What else should the disgruntled do? When they bare their bums, they are criticised for bringing our freedom into disrepute.
Blaming others for why black people don’t swim is unfair. The blame lies with mothers who forbade their children from learning the skill.
Court reporting has long been considered a rite of passage and a training ground for young reporters. But Ronnie Morris turned it into a career — and made it look a glamorous one. Senior advocates, articled clerks, judges, magistrates, orderlies, interpreters and even many accused and witnesses got to know the name of this passionate Capetonian.
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/ 30 November 2007
This weekend’s Nedbank Golf Challenge has already made the headlines, but it is likely to be remembered mostly for the late withdrawals by big-name stars. First it was world number three and two-time defending champion Jim Furyk withdrawing on ”doctor’s” orders. Then reluctant genius Sergio Garcia said he needed to rest for three months.
Funny thing, this game called golf. The number one player plays the fewest games on offer and he keeps coming back to win, and if he doesn’t, he threatens to win all the time. The rest of the players go through an emotional and physical rollercoaster week in and week out.
At the beginning of this week, thousands of kilometres from Oakmont, Pittsburgh, in the United States, a 17-year-old girl from a South African dorpie called Benoni claimed to have had sightings of the Virgin Mary — the mother of Christ. Only seven men of the 178-strong field who teed off at the Oakmont Country Club for the 107th US Open are likely to know where Benoni is.
Do men love younger women? Well, do ducks take to water? There are many reasons why old sods like me find ourselves shamelessly looking at pretty young things and wishing age was on our side. Sometimes, as Mandla Mthembu has proved, with a bit of money we can turn the hands of time.