The Catholic mystic Catherine of Siena claimed that, in a vision, she received the Holy Prepuce or foreskin as a wedding ring symbolising her marriage to Christ. A certain Saint Bridget made it known that she, too, had received bits of prepuce from an angel. It gave her orgasmic-like sensations when she put it on her tongue.
A hand bobbing up and down on an erection is one of the funniest things in the world — at least when said penis is being woggled on a leafy Johannesburg street at noon on Valentine’s Day. Instantly it reminded me of my dog having a good scratch, especially as what I could see of the man’s face around his sunglasses had the same fixed look as my Alsatian when he’s trying to reach the itchy bit behind his ears.
In the past few weeks the Mail & Guardian has carried a number of political views on the crisis of overcrowding and poor sanitation in the Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Hout Bay. The City of Cape Town has a responsibility to remedy this situation, writes the mayor of Cape Town, Helen Zille.
President Thabo Mbeki’s statement in his State of the Nation address on the exchange rate and volatility of the rand brings to mind the dilemmas faced by policymakers in most developing countries under conditions of economic globalisation.
Eritrea dismissed as ”baseless fabrication” on Sunday accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean forces kidnapped a group of tourists, including Britons and Ethiopians, in a remote part of Ethiopia. The Britons went missing last week in the remote and inhospitable Afar area in the north-east of the country.
The ruling party in Zimbabwe expelled one of its co-founders, veteran politician Edgar Tekere, for insulting President Robert Mugabe in a recently published autobiography. A meeting of party leaders in Tekere’s home district of Manicaland, eastern Zimbabwe, ”unreservedly condemned” Tekere’s book, A Lifetime of Struggle.
The first clothing-free workout session at a Dutch gym went ahead as planned on Sunday — and participants and observers said it met expectations. Around a dozen middle-aged and elderly men braved the glare of nearly twice that number of journalists at Fitworld gym in the town of Heteren, including reporters, photographers and at least five television crews.
South African Anton Haig kept his cool in scorching heat to win the Johnnie Walker Classic after a three-way play-off on Sunday. The 20-year-old Haig, who birdied the 72nd hole to join the leaders on 13-under-par 275, sank a 10-foot birdie putt at the first extra hole to beat compatriot Richard Sterne and Briton Oliver Wilson
The bad news is that Moroka Swallows’ Namibian international defender George Hummel is recovering from surgery incurred on a fractured tibia in December and will be out of soccer until mid-April. Hummel, making an unexpected appearance in the game against Golden Arrows on Saturday afternoon, scored the solitary goal of the match.
Amazulu’s Lucky Mzizi — a former Kaizer Chiefs player — scored a brace to help his team beat the Amakhosi 2-1 in a fast-flowing Castle Premiership game played at Olympia Park on Saturday evening. Amazulu led 1-0 at the break. It was sweet revenge for Amazulu, after Chiefs beat them 2-0 at home in the first round.