‘So Tom Moyane, the suspended head of the South African Revenue Service (Sars), went into battle early this past week’
Hevea brasiliensis, the rubber tree, had thrived in the Far East, where it had been transplanted and organised into rubber plantations
While a lot has been written about the Jameson Raid, Charles van Onselen managed to imagine a fresh contribution to the historiography
‘It seemed, at the time, to be a very good idea to go and be myself by shopping at a particular place’
‘One reader described this as the most boring column I had ever written. I hope to out-bore it soon, perhaps even with this account of its sequelae’
‘For a communications company, Vodacom is exceptionally bad at communicating’
There was a rather odd guy in the accounts department who was not tall and who wore strange round glasses on his face
‘As the market expands, and more people buy sex dolls, the call for male dolls has grown’
‘That engodment of the individual leads to mania, in which prophecy may come forth, and the person hearing the divine message is a mantis’
A book long in the making about controversial assassinations challenges official accounts