Aakash Bramdeo is a former colleague from e.tv news who moved on to the SABC before being offered the editorship of Post in Durban — which was the newspaper which published my first story back in 1980. Before accepting the job, Aakash picked my brain as to what he could do to make the paper relevant to a wider readership. "Get a columnist who reflects the audience you're trying to attract," I said.
Shortly after accepting the position of editor, Aakash called me and asked, "when can you start?"
"View from the Top" ran in Post every week from 1 May 2011 to 9 April 2014 (which coincided with Aakash's departure from Post to edit the Sunday Tribune).
If you're in the southern hemisphere at this time of year and have the opportunity to look up into the sky to the east just before dawn, you should be able to see the constellation Virgo just above the horizon.
La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid – revenge is a dish best served cold.
On 15 July 2010, journalist Brian Krebs reported on his cybersecurity blog that researchers had discovered a sophisticated new strain of malicious software – what most of us would refer to as a virus.
If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow – US president Theodore Roosevelt apocryphally said to Douglas MacArthur in 1906.
The world has been abuzz since the weekend over the death of our country's greatest son.
‘All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth…’ My mother has been singing that ditty to my six-year-old daughter for the past while – she who has begun shedding her milk teeth and collecting rewards under her pillow.
Good things come to an end; bad things have to be stopped. I'm not sure where I first heard that expression but it has been top of mind for me as 2013 drew to a close.
Dear matriculants.
You’ve survived 12 years of school. Congratulations. Now, the pressure is on. What are you going to do with the rest of your life?
Many pivotal moments in history resulted from single innocuous events.
Seduced by a prince named Paris, Helen of Sparta fled with him to his native land. This led Helen’s husband Menelaus to declare war on Troy, effectively wiping them out.
It was all going so splendidly: Bafana Bafana drew 1-1 with Morocco, then beat Swaziland 3-0, beat world champions Spain 1-0, beat Mozambique 3-1, and drew 1-1 against Mali.
Then our national team tanked, going down 1-3 to Nigeria.
What went wrong?
