'Beware of Greeks bearing gifts' - old Trojan proverb.

PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe appeared to have chosen his words rather carefully last weekend after the announcement that Sun Air had, to coin a phrase, crashed.

'Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong.' - Dire Straits

THIS is the funniest tale I've heard in a while.

PEOPLE appear to have been crawling over each other to get to the top of the pile of those saying justice minister Penuell Maduna is not that bad. They may even be right.

'History can teach us nothing' - Sting, 1987

NOT so long ago, in about the 4th Century of the Christian calendar, a renaissance took place across the Indian sub-continent. India's golden age (as it is known today) saw a blossoming of music, literature, art and poetry that

A frog he would a wooing go...

HAVE you ever stopped to think about the possibility of having access to a mystical formula that would make you infinitely desirable to members of the opposite sex?

This is the 9th month of the year 1999. There are 99 days to go to the last year of this century. Do you feel a sense of destiny?

When beggars die, no comets are seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire coldblooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Times have not become more violent.

"Usurpers always choose troubled times to enact, in the atmosphere of general panic, laws which the public would never adopt when passions were cool." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

RAPE touches a raw nerve among most of us, especially since we discovered we have the dubious honour of posting t

'And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' — Nietzsche

DO you ever stop to think about the sort of people we choose as our friends? Do you ever consider how often those friends are completely different to what we are and what we aspire to be?