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The election of Barack Obama as the President of US was momentous and filled with historic firsts. The first black President of the US, the first woman moose-killing candidate running for...
Whenever there is a disaster, jokes starting doing the rounds pretty quickly. Recently I heard this one: What’s the difference between a pizza and a banker? A pizza can feed a family of four. Of...
I admit I feel sorry for former President Thabo Mbeki. I know there are many out there who think he got what he deserved, but his summary dismissal smacked of retribution rather than mature...
India defies description, especially after you spend only a week there and in one city, Delhi. Delhi is a great city of the world, embodying dozens of cultures, old and new. The city survives on...
One of the most chilling moments during the South African Truth and Reconciliation was when Jeffrey Benzien, apartheid torturer, was asked by one of his victims to re-enact, without doing harm, the...
Lately, words have been distressing me and increasingly alienating me from the world. This is because our world is now filled with words whose meaning is distorted unrecognisably. We live in the...
According to the publication Grocer, the number of oranges being sold in the UK is falling. Orange sales are dropping by about 2% a year, whereas the sale of easy-to-peel fruit such as tangerines...