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The justice department, when it comes to matters of the Bearded Folk, has the patience of Job.
A word like hotnot says more about who utters it than about who is on the receiving end.Offensive? Maybe. Illegal? Ridiculous.
”Yes, but is it a 16-valve?” Back in the day this phrase taught me all there was to know about whether a guy stood a chance.
The true spirit of Islam may just be found in Timbuktu, the town of sand, mystics, big navels and the Ahmed Baba Institute Museum.
How many more Palestinians have to die before their suffering becomes a cause célèbre?
The gender commission is just a government body stacked with bureaucrats whose interests leave little room for the ‘ordinary woman’.
It was a fine rebuff delivered in polite but unmistakably clipped tones. “I don’t do the press. Sorry.” And with that clincher, the well-published Wits University political…
I guess some would call it apartheid envy. Either that, or liberal guilt associated with having had a sheltered upbringing, no television at home, or just having been too young.…
Call it fatalism, resignation or sheer naivety, but Osman Adam (46) says he doesn’t waste much time pondering over what he will do when armed thugs break down his door. A highly…
Pity those who think there’s no fun to be had as South Africa enters what could be the Year of the Banana. With the former second-in-charge of the country in the pay of a…
Pity the president of the ANC Women’s League … for the sister truly reigns in troubled times. As if presiding over a government department crippled by scandal, ineptitude and…
Patience is more than a virtue for Wendy Adams — it’s what she calls her personal “street weapon”. Managing a full-time job by day and then enduring the demands of being a single…
The maze of passages leading to District Court B on the first floor of the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court is dim, poorly lit and unventilated. It is mid-morning in Alexandra, a…
‘It wasn’t me.’ And with that immortal line in mind, yet another eminent personage joins the ranks. One Mr Yengeni — the newest addition to the Society of the Dishonest Deviants.…
If there is one certainty in turbulent times in good old Mzansi, then it’s the black male’s fascination with white balls. For such an oft-studied species, one wonders why the…
‘It’s no use — the women are in eruption. And those who have until now been simmering quietly in the backseats of the sedans are now steaming furiously …" Though DH Lawrence…
It goes from bad to worse for the man with a salary and a woman. Not only does having a bank balance carry with it the hazard of being waylaid by a cunning female happily out to…
Tariq Ramadan has an abundance of labels. And for the most part, he is reluctant to dismiss any of them outright. Because to the Swiss professor and self-styled Islamic reformer,…
I just love my “hos”. Don’t you? For those less familiar with transatlantic English, I mean “dem rump-shakin”, bling shinin’, skanky, bad-ass bitches in bikinis strutting their…
I just love my ”hos”. Don’t you? For those less familiar with transatlantic English, I mean ”dem rump-shakin”, bling shinin’, skanky, bad-ass bitches in bikinis strutting their…
