When it comes to sport Laurence and I unfortunately don’t have much to talk about. He doesn’t share my interest in the rugby and cricketing worlds but we could probably agree on the economics behind hosting the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
‘Hold on, isn’t it a bit much since we’re hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup? [...]

If it wasn’t already apparent my blogging activity will be increasingly light. The CA exam is looming and to be utterly honest for all my past and likely future effort I’m not sure if I’ll make it. Several thousand pages on financial accounting (IFRS) and auditing (SAAS) statements combined with several Acts, auditing methodology and [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you….(drum roll please)….South Africa’s first Gripen!
There are some nice pictures from the event. If you have a reasonably fast connection, I really recommend downloading the high-res versions, it’s easily worth the extra wait.
I was wondering how it would look in SAAF colours, and I must say, I really like [...]

It seems the Ekurhuleni Metro Council decided yesterday to finally submit a name change for Johannesburg International Airport. MzansiAfrika and Fodder have both blogged on this today already, and both think it’s an excellent idea. Well, I don’t.
The whole point of renaming it from Jan Smuts Int’l to Johannesburg Int’l was to depoliticise the name [...]

Andrew Sullivan has an excellent post up about the most recent milestone regarding Iraq. An extract:

“If someone had told me three years ago that by October 2005, Saddam Hussein’s murderous tyranny would be over for ever, that Iraq would have a new constitution that emerged from a democratic process and that it will soon [...]

For all those out there who believe that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is “unfair”, I give you today’s words by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
“There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this disgraceful blot (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad told students Wednesday [...]

Read this hagiographical account of Jacob Zuma’s supposed political virtues, and then ask yourself: What’s missing? It’s just a small omission, nothing big. Oh yeah – an admission that the guy is currently on trial for fraud and corruption. One might have thought that this would merit a mention.
This gives you some insight into how [...]

Transformer factory burns down.
Something tells me Megatron and the Decepticons had a hand in this.

I have to confess that South African politics has become almost incomprehensible to me. And while most newspapers won’t admit it, I’m not convinced they know what’s going on either. Case in point: does anybody really know what’s the deal with this institutional turf war between the Scorpions and the NIA? A few weeks [...]

Apparently last week Thursday was “Car Free Day”. I can’t say I noticed. Like millions of other South Africans, I was too busy… doing stuff that required a car. As James May, one of the presenters on BBC’s Top Gear (an excellent show, by the way) put it: “There does seem to be this idea [...]

It seems that I’m a sucker for punishment. While the Board exam is drawing closer and I’m feeling the resultant pressure and fear from it I got some related news over the course of the weekend.
More specifically, my application to attempt the Masters in Computer Auditing course at the University of Jo’burg has been accepted. [...]