So far, it is mission impossible
It's easy to blame apartheid for rampant crime. It's a lot harder to understand why — or how to fix it
Shortly after my arrival in Italy in 1992, I went out for dinner with my allievi ricercatori — my research assistants.
In months ahead, they would become my friends.
A horny dilemma
Rumour has it that there can be found within the offices of the Kruger National Park a sign which reads Getting things done around here is like mating elephants ...
IN this country, prior to British rule, men were men, women were women, and sheep were scared.
Touching the face of God
There are kids in the townships around Johannesburg who have never visited the city...
It's Aura's birthday this week. Four years since she was — Macduff like — from her mother's womb untimely ripp'd.
Stop this short-sighted snivelling
Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle...
LOOKING at a map of the west coast of Africa just south of the equator, the diamond rich territory of northern Angola from Cabinda to Soyo is split in two, separated by a narrow strip of land.
That strip — a mere 37 kilometr
As they say, 'nice shootin' son'
If music be the food of love...
Urban legend has it that a woman who was kissed on the cheek by Elvis at a concert in the 1950s has not washed her face since. This may explain why Elvis has frequently been seen wandering the aisles of a supermarket in Ladysmith.
Bamboozling rude blondes
Be nice to waiters and waitresses or to anyone who might spit in your food when you aren't looking . .
Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum, er... beer
Dramatic changes could be in the pipeline with the appointment of Meyer Kahn as Police CEO
AS one of his first executive decisions, former South African Breweries chief Meyer Kahn is expected to announce new measures to deal with road crime.
Those caught drinking and driving will
Check it out — Sefrican's tahm has come
To chill or pop a cap in my dome? Whoop, there it is!
HENRY Higgins' nightmare of the decline of the English language is coming true.
Methinks they protest too much
The expensive campaign run by the pharmaceutical industry to shoot down the Health Department's National Drug Policy should make us sit up and take notice
Not for the first time, I wish to place on record that I hold our minister of health, Dr Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, in extreme
