There are reportedly nine more years left until Jo’burg, Pretoria and several nearby towns effectively begin to geographically merge into one, forming one of the largest global Megalopolis’ in population terms. A visual from Google Maps also seems to confirm the growing encroachment between Jo’burg in the south and Pretoria in the north, with Centurion and Midrand nestled in the [...]

I got this in my inbox. I doubt this blog’s readership is big enough to make any difference, but I’m happy to pass along the message:

I’d like to here your opinion about the third murder on Rivonia off-ramp this weekend. The police did nothing since the last attack. There is still no police patrolling the [...]

Despite the recent firm decision to rename Johannesburg International Airport to OR Tambo International Airport and the subsequent controversy, I have felt no need go over the issue again. My thoughts on it, expressed in a previous post, are unchanged. I still believe it’s a stupid thing to be doing, and it’s obvious that it’s [...]

This weekend, the ANC’s NEC decided to weigh in on the burgeoning Israel/Lebanon crisis:

The ANC blamed Israel on Sunday for the fighting in the Middle East and called for a ceasefire. In a statement released on Sunday by spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama after the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting in Ekurhuleni at the weekend, the [...]

This is a personal milestone of sorts. I’ve been blogging for years, but until now, this site has never been popular enough to attract the unwanted attention of incomprehensible lunatics. All that changed, however, following the latest arrival in my inbox:

I see that you are doing exactly the same as the statistics that you are [...]

It has been eight days since Hezbollah’s brazen kidnapping of two IDF soldiers, and the Israeli offensive into Lebanon which resulted has entered a sort of uneasy holding pattern. Though bombings of Hezbollah positions have continued, the pace appears to have let up slightly from previous days, probably as a result of the ongoing evacuation [...]

Is it just me, or did the South African blogging community feel so much bigger a year ago? At the risk of turning into one of those navel-gazing meta-bloggers, I think it’s rather depressing that the unfolding war in Lebanon – which is easily the most important story of the week, and has generated thousands [...]

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time. So of course it’s the top-rated article on ShoutWire at the moment.

As I’ve said in a previous post, I have mixed feelings about Israel’s attack on Lebanon. The real problem in the region is the weakness of the Lebanese state, its inability to maintain a monopoly on violence within its own territory, and the way in which it’s forced to share authority with Hezbollah: virtually a [...]

One of the more unusual phenomenon around job-hunting still perplexes me.
Basically, why is it that when one’s looking for a new job there’s inevitably a drought? Yet when you finally get that offer you’ve been waiting several months for it’s immediately followed by several more such offers?
If only to prove this since thursday I’ve had [...]

The Israeli attack on Lebanon has created all sorts of weird realignments within the punditocracy. A lot of people who typically support Israel’s actions – myself, for example – nevertheless have serious doubts about the wisdom of getting entangled in a war with Lebanon. On the other hand, at least one newspaper has editorialised loudly [...]