It was not so long ago that former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said "America's intellectual level is lower than Japan's because American society has too many blacks, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans"...

I WAS thinking about this while wandering the Harvard University campus las

I don't envy Jay Naidoo's job, but right now, I wish I were doing it...

TECHNOLOGY is wonderful.

So, do you know how to be happy?

ONE of those strange quirks of human nature is that the best time is never now. Nearly everyone seems to remember a time when things were "better".

The government can take away almost everything, but they can't take away my paranoia...

THERE'S a magnificent Highveld sunrise streaming through my hotel window which, with the warmth of the heater, creates the illusion that I could frolic in the fountain with the goldfish.

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Changing jobs is a good time to consider the effect your stay has had on your fellow workers...

GAUTENG, the heart of darkness, beckons. Let the dogs bark, the caravan moves on.

There are some good reasons why South African-trained medical doctors should be asked to serve the community for two years...

A MEDICAL doctor of my acquaintance was frothing at the mouth and falling all over recently when this idea was first broached. "Why not," he asked "insist that

Life on Mars?

Vigilantes have declared a jihaad in the Western Cape. Self-proclaimed drug gangsters march the streets in protest under police protection.

I'm still looking for a good place to stick those violent criminals who keep walking out of prison...

NOT so long ago, while living in the USA, I won a prize in a Sweepstake.

In the new South Africa, a rose by any other name does not necessarily smell as sweet...

So this guy got onto a plane heading off to Australia, and found a woman in the seat next to his.