Jeep: a 4-letter word?
You would never have guessed this, but it turns out that Jeep South Africa are trendsetters in the field of automobile...
Stories behind the love songs
The history of popular music is replete with examples of love songs that were written for one particular person, but...
Khanyi Mbau: Bling and nothingness
I battled to find significance in Bitch, Please! I’m Khanyi Mbau, socialite Khanyi Mbau’s tell-all...
Let them eat cock
Suggestions that the way to end sexism and rape is to have a better, more ethical patriarchy is lamentably divorced...
Our thugged-out asses: SONA
Jacob Zuma’s 2013 State of the Nation Speech done gangsta style: Honourable members, Fellow Downtown...
#20forgottenSAsongs
I’m putting up 20 great SA songs that we’ve forgotten, one a day for 20 days. Here are the first four, but...
Bond. Jacob Bond.
The Jacob Zuma bond saga has spawned the #thenamesBondJacobBond meme. read about it on the Mail &...
Driving you mad
It used to be a thing. Choosing music for a road trip. Getting the right CDs into your glove compartment. The optimal...
Fetish, Little Heart
Digging out my old Fetish albums to prep for reviewing Little Heart (2012), the band’s first cd since 2006’s...
Die Antwoord is my pimp
I started getting calls from Die Antwoord fans when I was in Tunisia at the beginning of the year. The calls came from...
Bob Dylan’s Tempest
Bob Dylan Tempest With the release of his novelty album Christmas in the Heart in 2009, Bob Dylan allowed us to stop...
Steve Hofmeyr’s Comedy Roast
Whoopee. Africa’s first ever Comedy Central Roast, featuring Steve Hofmeyr, Afrikaans ideologue and sometime singer,...
African News Innovation Finalists
Forty (40) pioneering digital journalism projects have been shortlisted as finalists in the inaugural $1 million...
Minor rant
Normally, I’d save this stuff for a column, but I feel like ranting in a space where I don’t have to be too...
The Trouble With Tech
Can’t remember when or why I wrote this little piece. Might have been the start of a column. Found it on an old...
Derek Gripper’s Music from Mali...
We are told that DerekGripper is the only guitarist in the world who can do justice to the complex, unique music of...
Smear of the Nation
After the defacement, and dedickment, of Brett Murray’s “Spear of the Nation”, I got...
The best 10 things I’ve eaten t...
Okay, this is actually the best 10 things I’ve eaten this year that I took pictures of. There’s been good...
- Fail “@RapuleT: Of all the people who knew Vuyo, they had to bring in minister Dina Pule to pay tribute. And she is mouthing platitudes”
- RT @mailandguardian: Name-dropping has been blamed for the unlawful landing of an aircraft carrying guests to the Gupta family wedding http…
- RT @paulyberk: Waterkloof is NOT a National Key Point? I guess it doesn't have a big enough tuck-shop.
- @ronathanfox but thanks for the logic and support on this.
- RT @Earth_Pics: Awesome sea and cliffs http://t.co/1x13s6tV6r
- We should prob move on, but: I quoted so I could take spaces out, so that tweet would fit into 140 with his name @ronathanfox @hayhayhaydn