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There was a sense of menace in their criticism, like the purr of a lion feasting on an impala. The cynics smelt political gimmickry.The cynics smelt corruption. The cynics smelt bull dust if you would excuse the pun. The arrival of the bulls and...

Otherwise there’s a real possibility of folks wondering whether you don’t have the fare to get back or you are some kind of fugitive running away from the serious city law.City law is supposed to be more stringent and tougher than village law. So...

But the significance of this day seems to be lost to most as a good part of the population seems intent on sinning as much as possible away from heaven.And on this day, this very significant day in the Bible, most of us will patronise sin spots like...

Half the population will follow him blindly until they fall into an abyss. When Mr Ponzi Scheme is in town, many folks lose their minds. It is like when the ice cream van hits your street and parents lose control of their kids.Consumer Watchdog...

Writer’s block is a more technical term to describe a writer’s inability to come up with something interesting to write. But what is the writer’s block? Now for most of us this means when we get to this point our jobs might be in more jeopardy...

Almost all the stalls had given a day off to their workers and those who went to the mall to get their coffee fix at the Diamond Square were left both disappointed and amazed. Obviously such huge events must have a fair dose of controversy for them...

Government doesn't think so either. Toilet paper is gold and is something to be treasured, nurtured and kept safe from those who invade the council in search of toilets.Go into any council toilets and you will not find toilet paper. Every single...

I have been here on business for the past two days. I know many don't believe columnists are capable of doing business of any sort. Apparently all we do is write columns and cannot run a business to save our lives.I must admit, however, that...

Yet we annotate our columns with notes like ‘For feedback, comments and insults email [email protected]’. This should lead any sane, analytical person to the conclusion that not many columnists are smart.In fact, I too think many...

Everyone took a swig at the bottle and was sufficiently inebriated after that little indulgence. This was an age of miracles when people had powers to part seas and walk through them.Nowadays people believe the miracle boat has sailed, that nobody is...

Forget that our ‘A basimane Ba Kgwathe’ cohort in 1997 seemed to view the white and black spherical thing as incidental and continued to embarrass the locals by losing all 3 of their games, conceding 10 goals in the process and scoring only 1, in...

Some of you had been touted as the next big thing on the modelling ramp when in actual fact you cannot even make the pages of an edition of The Weird and Wacky Creatures.My mum one day inexplicably called me a prince. I am not exactly sure what I had...

I mean there surely must be a law against people suggesting columns of this type. The major thing that I wanted to receive in the way of a blessing was that something horrible would happen to the fuel price increase gremlins.But then, this week our...

Our MPs have decided they cannot be outdone by a democracy as young as South Africa. This is what unfolded west of Main Mall. A member of parliament called Ignatius seemed to have ignited and activated the speaker’s wrath bones from the depth of...

The official reasons why I was approached was because I had the interest of my people at heart and I looked the part.This is not entirely true because I only have the interest of very few people (family members and my social club) at heart. When you...