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 costing “bungle”. The use of the word bungle confuses me. Mixing up your medications and taking the pink pills instead of the yellow ones is [Continue]

OK so here we are in 2009. And I am painfully aware that I haven’t written a lengthy blog for some time now. That’s not about to change. I’m still on holiday – on the tail end of a relaxing two weeks in Kimberley (is there any other way to be in Kimberley?) and while [Continue]

I don’t know if you saw this recently — but it’s an actual screen capture of President Mbeki’s diary, as published on government’s own website. I wish I was making it up, but I’m not: (Source: http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/diary.asp?show=President%20Mbeki) No, you nerd, the important thing here is not that he only scored a Google [Continue]

What if we could represent South African politics visually? What if we could take a snapshot of M&G investigative reporter Stefaans Brümmer’s brain? Would it look like a plate of multicoloured spaghetti? A box of rubber bands? Or would it look like this [Continue]

I bet you are wondering if our country’s First Citizen has ventured into the world of Web 2.0 during his late-night browsings. Well, I can confirm that he has. After tracking him down on Facebook, I asked him if he would be my friend. Wouldn’t you just know it, but he agreed. So I grabbed [Continue]

see in this week’s Mail & Guardian that the paper decided to take my post from Thought Leader and expand on it a bit, with some help of two of their journos (check out page four of the paper). While all that was going on, I was sent another screen grab from the president’s inbox [Continue]

A confidential source working in the IT department in Parliament sent me this screengrab from President Thabo Mbeki’s inbox. Thought you might like to see it . [Continue]