"The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today, she's gonna make them stay at home
And Daddy doesn't understand it, he always said she was good as gold

Eid, Passover, Easter... Just another multicultural week in the new RSA

It's a peaceful Wednesday night in the newsroom here in the fairest Cape.

POLITICIANS generally irritate me. Stupid politicians more so. Uninformed politicians are the worst.

The finest cigars used to be hand rolled on the inner thighs of young virgins.

The story of Bill, Monica, and the cigar greeted me on the front page on Saturday morning.

There's always been a mystique about California.

THE Middle-East peace process coughed, sputtered, and began to chug on its way again on Friday, and I watched in bewilderment over the weekend as bits and pieces of the latest episode were revealed — soap-opera like — to those of us around the world who are desperately hoping for real progress.

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce?

After driving in more than a dozen countries around the world, I'm seriously considering abandoning the roads and buying a helicopter.

The real-life implications of differing standards of traffic ordinances only sunk in the first time I tried crossing the street in the US of A.

DECEMBER 16 has been known by various names in this country during my lifetime.

'We are a good and decent country. But we have significant challenges we have to face.