Some of the most extraordinarily stupid decisions have been taken by those who have not understood what they have been dealing with...

THERE'S the story of the idiot who went to his doctor and asked to be castrated because he had been told that it would improve his sex life.

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Madiba may have rubbed salt into Uncle Sam's old wound when he let it be known that he had invited Fidel Castro and other friends to visit us...

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke, Rudyard Kipling said.

You must choose between me and your

If you knew that a rose would scream, would you still pluck it?

While we've been barrelling down the road of reconcilliation, white South Africa has never been taught how black South Africa really felt about lots of things...

Decades of state-fed propaganda convinced white South Africa they knew how most black people felt about the ANC, the cultura

There's nothing quite like having friends visiting from another country to help rediscover your home town...

JAY is a computer systems administrator at the World Wide Web consortium in Boston. Heidi's a freelance journalist working on a Masters in Journalism at Boston University.

Chris Liebenberg's budget is a reminder that we perhaps deserve the governments we get...

KATE, my live-in friend, lover, and the person I'm married to, is on walkabout in the Australian outback.

We need to Africanise our school curricula to suit our conditions, but this requires lateral thinking...

THE LITTLE community of St Wendolins near Mariannhill was threatened with forced removal and I was driving up there on a Saturday afternoon in 1982 to cover a prayer meeting, when I

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Trevor Manuel's promise of smarter taxation is interesting coming on the heels of union recommendations of a 55% tax rate for the rich...

IF you accept the idea that taxation is fair, then there's nothing wrong with high tax rates.

There is no reason to be getting hysterical about the fall of the rand against major currencies...

When I moved to Italy in 1992 to start work at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia, I thought I was getting an excellent deal.

My new salary was