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/ 2 April 2008

It ain’t necessarily so

"This much I know is true: don’t trust those who say things with absolute certainty. Back in primary school, they told me I couldn’t subtract a big number from a little number. ‘Don’t even try,’ said crow-faced Mrs Pillay, leaning in, breath smelling of cough drops and decay," writes Lev David.

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/ 18 December 2007

No scented soap in Tuynhuys

Pity the president of the ANC Women’s League … for the sister truly reigns in troubled times. As if presiding over a government department crippled by scandal, ineptitude and general chaos wasn’t trying enough, along comes the added humiliation of being stabbed in the back by one’s own, writes Khadija Bradlow.