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Bieber-time

Bieber-time

This morning Big Concerts announced that singer Justin Bieber is going to be performing in South Africa next year…news that has a gazillion teenage fans (and a good couple of…

Julius’ blog site at risk of deletion

Julius’ blog site at risk of deletion

While he’s getting all frothy about the fact that he is being impersonated on Twitter, ANC Youth League President Julius Malema might be ignoring an even more catastrophic scenario on…

Hawks descend on Arts ministry

Hawks descend on Arts ministry

Reported on Times Live ….and about time too. It has been a fairly open secret in the Arts industry that all has not been well with 2010 funding, and I…

Cell C…inspired or trying too hard?

Cell C…inspired or trying too hard?

Cell C today revealed a new corporate identity – new logo, new colours and, seemingly, a new attitude to its customers. In the course of doing so they took some…

WWMD (what will Malema do)?

So Eugene Terreblanche has been murdered. And although it is probably unrelated, the fact that it happened while the country debates the appropriateness of struggle songs like “kill the boer”…

Just saying…

Just saying…

Grahamstown Spur. Chicken burger. Is it just me or is the chicken roughly the same size as the tomato? And, no, it’s not a particularly big tomato. Just saying.…

Parlotones FTW

It’s not often that I’m moved to gush. Oh, alright, I’ll be honest. I am frequently moved to gush when it comes to music I love. It’s just that too…

Most bizarre headline ever?

Most bizarre headline ever?

If this didn’t betray a deep and disturbing level of homophobia and a major invasion of privacy, it would be funny. Courtesy of the Sunday Pepper – a Ugandan newspaper.…

Daily Rant: DA becomes like all the rest

This morning I listened to Aden Thomas interviewing Ian Neilson, the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, on Cape Talk. The interview was about what Eyewitness News is calling the IRT…

The best South African column ever?

I don’t know what made me think of Hagen Engler recently, but through a near-random series of mouseclicks I ended up on his website/blog. Actually, that would have been what…

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