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The Race Card Still Trumps All 7 Jun 2011 | 02:23 am
My latest column on Moneyweb: On the way to Sci-Bono, the radio is race, race and race. UN economist Jeffrey Sachs is under fire for raising the thought of a three-child policy in Africa. A lengthy s...
Amos Masondo, the Hilarious One-Man Show 4 Mar 2011 | 02:56 am
My latest column on Moneyweb: The last time that I unpacked my cudgel-set to defend Africa from the slander of the Forward button, I got roundly klapped. That was only a couple of weeks ago. You’d th...
We Have No Time for Random News from Heaven 24 Feb 2011 | 02:23 am
My latest column on Moneyweb: It’s a pity that Heaven vanished so fast. Heaven was seriously fascinating, not to mention depressing. But The Force was with Jake on this thing. For a start he was spea...
To Czech Boytjie and His Fan Club: Here’s What’s Wrong With Your “Quote of the Century” 8 Feb 2011 | 12:15 am
My latest column on Moneyweb: My friend Shaun forwards “QUOTE OF THE CENTURY”. This is the fourth time that “QUOTE OF THE CENTURY” descends upon my Inbox, and the second that it is sent to a single r...
Presenting my new website, Democracy Version Two, or “D2″ for short 17 Sep 2010 | 10:12 pm
Mense, gut tells me it’s time I gave you a rollicking column completely free of anything that smacks of better world & so forth. And kop says: “ja, okay, next week.” Right now I do a thing I’ve spent...
I want to see razor wire become a museum exhibit 30 Mar 2010 | 02:51 am
It is time we stop our country following the crumbly trail of Africa. Our local Community Police Forum (CPFs) asked me to speak at their AGM, and wanted me to propose a topic. I said I’d like to addr...
AA, BEE: A New Racism that Boomerangs 10 Mar 2010 | 12:38 am
I stiffened the sinews, clenched my teeth and tackled the 134 comments addressed to two recent columns. One was by me: “if today’s fashion is ‘give the job to the black oke!’ tomorrow’s fashion will b...
We must move beyond race, or we’re doomed 23 Feb 2010 | 10:32 pm
The worst, the deepest, the most indefensible sin that a columnist can commit is to say “I told you so”. It should be in the contract: “I told you so” means instant beheading. Unless you use the drea...
At the “Africa for Haiti” Media Gig 2 Feb 2010 | 08:39 pm
That I made it to the Nelson Mandela Foundation for the lunch of “Africa For Haiti” was thanks to cabin fever. I’d had seven days chained to a laptop and I needed human buzz or I was going to need a s...
Seffricans STOP bitching and whining, and be proud of our film industry 14 Oct 2009 | 11:53 pm
I have consumed more of the planet’s oxygen than most of you, so I have realised some big things. Like: few joys are greater than watching Impossibles turn to Achieveds. I have just seen three brilli...
