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By Jackie Mapiloko During school holidays my parents would ship me to a relative’s house in Evaton, a tiny settlement in the Vaal Triangle. My ageing relative was landlord to about 20 families who lived in shacks in a yard, which she had inherited from her mother. As the landlord, or
By Jason Norwood-Young With apologies to William Blake TIGER, tiger, burning bright Near to Delmas, on the right, What infrared hand or eye Could track thy fearful symmetry? In what distant mealies or field What copse of bluegums dost thou shield? Why did you leave your bakkie and leap? Did you see a chicken, or sheep? “If only
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Brett Kebble murder trial in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg is the fact that the accused, Glenn Agliotti, has not been charged with fraud relating to what appears to be a defence of assisted suicide. The evidence given by Agliotti in
You know it is a powerful front-page story, when you can still, two years later, remember the time of day, and what you had in your shopping basket, when you saw the photograph. In the foreground a man was on his knees, weeping; in the background, black smoke billowed from
The best way to snap out of a World Cup hangover is to take a good look at the financial ruins visited upon the so-called advanced economies and then take a look at our solid grounding, which has helped us survive the worst of the global financial crisis. There is
By Roger Diamond Looking into the future is fun, but even more fun is looking at how other people are looking into the future. First, there are the pessimists and doomsayers who are sure the game is all over and we have a few last years of light before the eternal
Truth be told, I am not married and have never been married, now at the sweet, tender, gullible age of 47. That’s right, the Chook and I (the Chook being my missus Marion) have never stood under showers of confetti and their lovely, tasteful representation of great fertility: clouds of
Six weeks ago I touched down in London: a born-and-bred Cape Town boy about to start a new job in another country. While the online smorgasbord of Politicsweb, the Mail & Guardian and Business Day still form a daily news staple, an inevitable sense of detachment from the roiling intrigue of
Two recent events have drawn my attention to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Did I say two? Maybe three. Or four. The first was his announcement that he would retire after his looming 79th birthday — on October 7. The second is linked with an excellent doctoral thesis — based on
One of the many definitions of paradigm is that it is “a pattern or model, or an exemplar”. Another says that it is a “thought pattern” or a way of looking at or relating to things. With the World Cup having come and gone, this is a great opportunity to
