Columns
29.10.2018 08:30 am
Facebook is good for finding friends, but tells you when you’ve lost them too
I found myself in floods of tears at the imminent death of an old school chum I hadn’t seen this century.
My mum was once looking at an old class photo of hers from post-wartime England when she said something that’s always stuck with me.
Facebook is good for finding friends, but tells you when you’ve lost them too
I found myself in floods of tears at the imminent death of an old school chum I hadn’t seen this century.
Columns
Jaundiced Eye: The honeymoon is over for Julian Assange
It’s all a bit like Mum and Dad trying to convince their loutish freeloading sprog, now in his late 40s, to vacate the basement and get a job.
Editorials
Latest train flaw needs an inquiry, Cyril
How bizarre is it that you, as a rail operator, do not ask your supplier whether the rolling stock can be made to fit your system?
Editorials
It’s crunch time in two big matches
Let’s hope for plenty of tries in the Currie Cup final in Cape Town, and goals galore in the Soweto derby at FNB Stadium.
Columns
You want a cow with that win? How about a biscuit?
It makes you wonder how much thought organisers actually put in when crafting a trophy.
Columns
Orchids and Onions: Nespresso does go big
An Orchid because it’s different. It’s Clooney. And an Onion to Facebook for ‘silver bullet’ marketing miss based on snooping.
Opinion
Here’s a fun way to waste a morning: Ask De Lille about ‘that SMS’
You can be guaranteed that a range of things will happen if you do, though none of them will resemble an answer.
Editorials
Heeding those in pain can save lives
Many of those who take their own lives might not have done it had they had someone to listen to their anguish, someone who cared.
Editorials
E-toll bullying will resume after elections
We think it’s clear the ANC is pushing e-tolls to the side until it wins in 2019.
Columns
Stop stereotyping ‘foreigners’ for dealing in drugs
No single race or nationality has a monopoly on the increasingly profitable and sophisticated underworld of trafficking and selling drugs.
Columns
Tip for Tito: This child needs more than VAT and fuel levies to grow
An economy is not a child: it doesn’t grow without encouragement.
Columns
Cyril’s panel-beating of the economy may be paying off
The combination of Mboweni and Ramaphosa is promising to be the key to unlocking the logjam in economic growth.
Columns
Justice must be served in SA
It’s no surprise that many feel we are living in a vacuum in terms of law and order. Lady Justice in SA has lost all visibility.
Editorials
Don’t tell SA the problems, Tito, fix them
Mboweni’s statement was a grim summation of where the country is and what is likely to happen over the next few years.
Editorials
Leagues teach ANC a lesson on graft
It’s good to see some in the province have a better memory than the central leadership.
Opinion
What’s going on with Mashaba’s retweet of a cartoon calling migrants ‘rubbish’?
The mayor already has a history of being accused of xenophobia. Maybe he needs a quick Twitter lesson. Or maybe he just means it.
Editorials
Good luck to everybody writing matric
If we are close to them, we should support them and understand when their frayed tempers reach breaking point.
Columns
Who will deliver the mini-budget today? Tito or Tweeto?
Ramaphosa and Mboweni are Teflon twins who create a false impression of being business/investor friendly, even while spouting economic nonsense.
Columns
Get a runner and cleft stick if you want reliable delivery
I subscribed to a UK magazine a year ago. I have only now received the first copy.
Editorials
Tito needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat
It’s going to take a lot more than cheeky tweets to turn this country around.
Editorials
Khashoggi’s death exposes ‘friends’
Hosting will the Saudis now for an international investment conference will be a test for SA’s commitment to international democracy and justice.
Columns
Why the EFF’s Gordhan conspiracy theories are dangerous
Conspiracy theories are dangerous if peddled to gullible supporters such as some of those who support Malema.
Columns
On men’s health, Dad and I are on the same page
The Movember Foundation’s message is simple: no matter the shape or style of your Mo this Movember, your face can inspire donations, conversations and real change.
Editorials
Currie Cup on the up
A competition steeped in history certainly deserves captivating viewers across the country.
Editorials
Zondo and Co up their game in search of the truth
It seems deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo and the commission will leave no stone unturned in their quest for the truth.
Columns
Hunting for sport is a double-edged sword
When farmers and ranchers realised the value of what they were sitting on, they protected that asset, and now the game industry is booming, and provides thousands of jobs.
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