Sri Lanka may be world champions at cricket but are failures at running the human race...

I'm responsible for the Natal Newspapers Internet site, and as a result, a lot of junk mail from the outside world ends up in my electronic mailbox.

Politics is a dirty business. So allegations of Inkatha's involvement in Operation Marion calls for level heads...

EVERYBODY LIES. Or at least, they tell half-truths. That's one of the first rules of politics.

You can never get a man to change his pub or his barber...

A GOOD friend of mine mentioned this to a colleague not so long ago. Said colleague was suggesting that I try his wife's hairdressing salon.

I changed my pub a while back.

"Those who half a decade ago were all too happy to deny any ties to the National Party are suddenly acting as though their dog has died..."

THAT was Kate's assessment of the reaction to FW's announcement that the Nat's were leaving the government of national unity.

The Conference of African Editors in Johannesburg earlier this month was a welcome sign that we who live in this continent are closer to each other than we think...

DR JACQUES HABIB SY is a Senior Program Specialist in Information Science with the International Development Research Cen

So the rand has tumbled but you still want to keep entertaining with style?

The gates of knowledge have been thrown open to us, but there are many who choose not to enter...

Someone once said that it's only in the West that religion is blindly accepted, and science is always questioned.

The truly scary part about growing older is realising how much you haven't learnt yet...

THE OLD MAN in the Unisa parking garage in Pretoria had a wizened look not unlike that of Yoda in Star Wars.

South African Airways' Olympic Jumbo looks more like a large mouldy pan pizza than a glittering flagship carrying our hopes and dreams...

THERE'S a particular type of arrogance that accompanies those who spend other people's money.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation has branded most of us as criminals. It's time to cut the brat's allowance...

THERE'S been an ominous change of tone in the SABC's campaign to get most of us to buy TV licences. Gone are the polite cartoons and the gently chiding pleas.