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Tanzania’s AMLC

Tanzania’s AMLC

I don’t normally put up press releases, but since I’m involved in this conference, I thought you...

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It’s Freedom Day, S...

It’s Freedom Day, Stupid!

Ah, a white girl writing about 27 April. Cue for the cooing and gushing over the rainbow nation? Nah. I’ve...

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6: Not out of 5

6: Not out of 5

One listener’s poetic is another’s ponderous, and I fear I lean towards the latter evaluation of...

Twelve Travel Shots

I’ve indulged myself by picking twelve of my favourite photos I’ve taken while travelling, and appending...

Twelve Travel Shots
posted on: Aug 28, 2010 | author: Chris

Chocolate stunts your growth

No man, what IS this! Why use a strange blonde midget with stunted arms to sell your chocolates? Who would possibly...

Chocolate stunts your growth
posted on: Aug 25, 2010 | author: Chris

Bribing into paradise

There are still some deserted, faraway places in our immediate world. Milibangalala is one of these, a perfect and...

Bribing into paradise
posted on: Aug 25, 2010 | author: Chris

The Dancing Striker

I know I shouldn’t lampoon people striking for a (barely) living wage, but really, this woman’s...

The Dancing Striker
posted on: Aug 19, 2010 | author: Chris
If a newspaper dies in a forest

If a newspaper dies in a forest

posted on: Aug 19, 2010 | author: Chris

Some preliminary notes, a reading list, and the hoary question about ‘What is journalism’. Hello, Students of the Damned. And by that I...

The Mess

The Mess

posted on: Jul 20, 2010 | author: Chris

The Mess is a pop-up restaurant in Juta St, Braamfontein – good food with a twist of attitude, served on a corner in downtown Joburg,...

The prisoners of strange

The prisoners of strange

posted on: Jun 24, 2010 | author: Chris

A review of Theory, the excellent new album by Carlo Mombelli and the Prisoners of Strange. Watching a performance by Carlo Mombelli and the...

Crazy guitar shop

Crazy guitar shop

posted on: Jun 19, 2010 | author: Chris

I visited a crazy old guitar shop in Amsterdam, in search of more Wandre vintage guitars. Followers of my bass guitar story might remember that I...

Benign Girl!

Benign Girl!

posted on: May 18, 2010 | author: Chris

Received this mail from Brett of Shit That I Think About. I must say, I don’t share his loathing of Benign Girl. Perhaps because I love totally...

Same old, same old

Same old, same old

posted on: May 14, 2010 | author: Chris

Governments change, but the lying bastards stay the same. Compare a cover from the Weekly Mail of July 26, 1991 with the Mail & Guardian of  May...

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