STONE the flamin’ crows, mate! What’s goin’ on Down Under? Er, it seems the crows might be stoned already. The Australian Crime Commission has produced a report suggesting that drug-taking has become a pa...
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WHAT is one to make of this match-rigging scandal in European football? Europol – the regional equivalent of Interpol – says hundreds of referees, players and other officials are thought to have been involved i...
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THE lawn grass grows knee-high. Those of us who follow the oval ball rather than the round temporarily transferred allegiance as Bafana Bafana pulled it off in fine style against Morocco and, for a while, seemed set to do ...
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NOW we have Plebgate. Ever since the Watergate scandal in the US - when President Richard Nixon tried to cover up a break-in by Republican Party operatives to the Democratic Party offices in the Watergate Hotel, in Washing...
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THE fellow who does my garden uses a wonderfully expressive Zulu word to describe the government: Badlimali – “they eat the money”. He is echoed by investment analyst James Greener.
IT’S A relief to learn that the expenditure at Nkandla has been okayed, everything is hunky-dory. It would be a travesty if development of this national growth node and national key point were to be held up by niggli...
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AN AMUSING incident happened the other evening at the Street Shelter for the Over-40s. A new barmaid was on duty. Proprietor Bob Humphreys, in relaxed and genial mode, ordered drinks for some of his regulars.
IT’S A time to tilt at windmills. Some years ago reader Buck Rogers campaigned against use of the supposedly gender-sensitive word “chairperson” instead of “chairman” (chairperson still has in...
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