I came to that conclusion while watching the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. The annoying Australian commentator was doing the “sport is all about the brotherhood of man” routine that all sports commentators – especially ones at the Olympics – lapse into from time to time. You know; all that stuff about how the [...]

Just how bad are trashy stories of soap eating zombies? Not that much if the Audit Bureau Circulation (ABC) figures are to be believed. The newspaper that published tha story, The Sun, is now the most widespread newspaper in Gauteng at least, what with its readership countrwide now at 2.3 million and exceeding that of [...]

Plans appear afoot to reorganise the various South African sporting codes administration under one centralized body named Sportco per the Saturday Star, suggesting that such a reorganisation will bring large benefits. The reported justification appears to revolve around Australia as an example. In particular, it claims that Australia’s more substantial medal success is due primarily [...]

I’ve recently made a few purchases from overseas distributors, as some may have noticed on the site. From the time the orders were placed, the goods took on average two days to arrive at Johannesburg International Airport. But frustratingly the goods took several more days to leave customs and to finally be delivered to yours [...]

Apparently, Nelson Mandela might testify in defence of Saddam Hussein at his trial. Needless to say, I really hope Mandela decides not to. Legally, it would be pure grandstanding, since he wasn’t directly involved with Iraq and has no actual relevance to the case. Pragmatically, it wouldn’t exactly do wonders for our national reputation. But [...]

Earlier in the week, the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus competed in a by-election in the white blue-collar area of Vanderbijlpark. The race itself may also have been a litmus test by the DA as to gauge the willingness of white voters in general to back black candidates, and in this case Nkhoro Makibinyane.
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Stepping outside South Africa for a moment, I was amused to read Zablogger’s comments on the flak that John Kerry is taking from the swift boat veterans who served with him in Vietnam. He figures that “it is a non-issue and nothing more then an attempted smear campaign against Kerry”. A smear campaign, perhaps [...]

The big story of the moment right now is the arrest of Mark Thatcher. I haven’t commented on it yet because I don’t really have anything good to say. Farrel Lifson wonders what will happen if the Scorpions got it wrong, Jonty Fisher analyses British media coverage of the story, and Fodder takes the opportunity [...]

I checked out the protest march at UP today, and I guess I owe SASCO an apology. Despite my somewhat ominous post yesterday, the march was entirely without incident. So much so that it was a bit of an anti-climax. If you were a newspaper editor or a blogger looking for a sensational story, it [...]

It’s a common (mistaken) assumption that it was always widely known how inefficient monopolies are, as against more competitive markets. But in truth, for the greater portion of the 20th century the actual belief was completely the opposite and the favoured argument was for ‘mature economies’. So much indeed that it wasn’t just the State [...]