One might say that all the doors we pass through in our lives are ours. They belong to us, just because we passed through them, or we belong to them
There will be rejection in the form of no replies, which will haunt you for days. Keep going.
"I’ve been using a company name and have played with the idea of talking to clients about “us here at the office”… but I’ve realised it’s just me. "
As Picasso said, though he may have had TS Eliot’s words put in his mouth: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
‘The revolution has spilled onto the screen’
Emails from clients and colleagues by far outnumber those from friends and family
More than a million fans have signed a petition to have the last season of Game of Thrones redone
By the time Game of Thrones is scheduled to air on Showmax, I’m asleep. That’s just the way I roll and no amount of suspense is going to change it.
Tony Yengeni’s tweet implied Mashaba should be necklaced. He has been widely criticised for this, and the DA has laid a charge.
Are we so in thrall to images of wealth that we would just stand there, agog at the spectacle, and not wonder about all this wasted electricity?
Why would a pastor who was not only made rich by God but is also presumably protected by God need guard houses?
In Leaving Neverland two men make allegations refuted by the family of a dead man unable to defend himself
Pope Francis has caused something of a storm by advocating a change to the Lord’s Prayer
To be resolute is to be unwavering and they waver (in the form of waivers), taking away our right to demand logic
Yes, 2018 was tough, but when last did we not have a tough year?
‘I also marvelled, yes marvelled, at the patience of everyone standing and sitting, staring blankly into space’
‘Having been burgled soon after I moved into a new house in Melville last year, I am appreciative of the services of a security company’
Malusi Gigaba is an Honourable Member, as they say in Parliament. He is, shall we say, a member in good standing
What we’re seeing is state-sponsored anarchy
In all the offices I’ve worked, I sat in the so-called bullpen — a shared working space modelled on war-time sweat shops.
Mumia was believed to come from embalmed corpses’ bone or tissue, but it seems more likely to have been the bitumen used in mummification
‘My immediate reaction was to think of ways to combat the grave injustice of the petrol price’
‘In some countries, you’d be okay if you were caught with a gram of the stuff because that’s seen as a one-person portion,’ writes Shaun de Waal
Milnerton flea market in Cape Town is a veritable training ground for the upstart dealmaker with asking prices rarely breaking the R100 mark
The Broederbond itself — dedicated to ensuring the supremacy of Afrikaners —was split into verkrampte and verligte tendencies
‘I do hope it’s not fake news’
‘The world’s attitude towards plastic is changing. It could be too late but it’s changing’
‘Product range’, as any sociologist can tell you, is the term for when a company repackages goods with new colours, logos and names
‘Now there’s a bit of a cultural fudge going on here’
A man held captive at the urinal is much more likely to grunt, snort and think to himself ‘Fuck, time to go to Mavericks’