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It’s easy to dislike Christmas when you were born a cynical old man. As a child, as if in training to become a columnist, I hated everything.
Led David: Pay-TV — be it terrestrial or satellite — is to me now what it was to my parents. Excessive. Exclusive. Bourgeois.
Personality politics is so painful to watch when politicians assume their personalities are anything other than unbearable.
Lev David: This one’s about why I think Sarah Palin deserves a place on the world stage, no matter the result of the United States Presidential Race.
That word recession. We don’t want to hear it. Hairlines recede. Gumlines recede. We don’t recede. Not in the 21st century.
Lev David: I’m not panicking. We’re fine for now. And, just in case, we’re stocking up on tinned food, the way we did in ’94.
Lev David on alleged rugby sex tape: There have been a great many adulterers through history who had other things to recommend them.
Lev David: To effectively celebrate what it means to be American, one has to sidestep the possibility that there are several definitions for that.
We’ve all met unkind women and there is such a thing as a bad mother. The propaganda, however, wants us to believe differently.
People who talk about ”values” are boring people and talking about values achieves nothing.
That statue. It’s an awful thing. With its tiny little head. Frozen with that smile. Frozen in that dance.
Twenty-four-hour news channels are like soap operas, every time you tune in, the characters are in a holding pattern, awaiting something dramatic.
There’s a Somali on your stoep. Of course, it’s insane to set up refugee camps across the road from nice, middle-class suburbs.
There’s a difference between an action plan and … action. There’s a difference between spending your days making PowerPoint presentations and spending it breaking rocks with the…
Casualty smells like pee and disinfectant. Red lino floors, neon lights, some of them flickering. Daniel is taken behind a powder-blue curtain, brown in some places. He tries to…
This is how I came to fall in love with a homeless person. My friend Sabelo has a mighty mane of dreadlocks and an ego so large he can barely get his Rasta shirt on, but he’s a…
Does anybody know if Hindu fanatics have ever started a protest over Yogi Bear? It might surprise you that I’m on the side of the Sudanese nutters who thought it was a big deal…
Joburg. It’s the hottest day of the year so far. The air’s as suffocating as a fat man’s hand pressed full against the face. Joubert Park, that inner-city cesspool, is littered…
”So, President Thabo Mbeki, exquisitely dressed as always, had a little huffy the other day about gated communities, accusing them of perpetuating apartheid-style separation. I…
Women in South Africa would be better off performing their traditional roles – in the kitchen and having babies. Or would they? Even within the confines of the home they are…
