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I was with Ali G the other day. I had collected him from the airport as he landed from Kazakhstan, and he was carrying a magazine with its title "i" turned upside down so it…
We, the ”original buppies”, got through high school, with my younger sister, Rirhandzu, and me attending the Deutsche Schule, first in Johannesburg and later in Pretoria. We had…
By the time this column is published, tens of thousands of people globally, would have made their way to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for February’s Black History Month celebrations.…
Quoted by a buddy on my previous column, having described black economic empowerment as ”the insatiable gratification of the gilded holy grail”, my conversant commented, ”You…
I am certain I am not the only one whose head sometimes spins from trying to keep up, decipher, interpret, reinterpret and pronounce on the monotonous debates, rantings and…
Every time I flip channels and come across the American television programme Extreme Makeover, I am astounded. Men and women write in to the show, requesting extensive surgical…
”I have read that this and the other person is an intellectual. I too want to be an intellectual,” wrote Mr X to the Mail & Guardian some years ago. All communists and black…
I suppose I would have enjoyed my schooling years had I not had to get up at 5am in the dark winters and wait for several minutes for the school bus to collect and take us to…
Man oh man, is King Mswati a troubled king. The biggest scandal of the century has rocked the royal house. Two of his 11 wives have recently run away and are hiding in foreign…
The very first time I visited friends at Dainfern Golf Estate and Country Club in Fourways, scrutinised by high-security fort personnel, my sister and I laughed and squirmed…
