Columns
14.9.2017 01:34 pm
An ad that inspires other ads is a success
It’s no surprise that few things under the sun are original. I love a good ad. And a clever one even more.
Advertising is a cut-throat industry. There’s a lot to take in when you find yourself either on agency or creative’s side, and both sides serve up their challenges. It’s an industry notorious for the toll it takes on advertising professionals, and also for its questionable ethics. Burnout, creative blocks and ridiculous deadlines are part and parcel of what’s become known as #AgencyLife, but it’s still an industry I love.
An ad that inspires other ads is a success
It’s no surprise that few things under the sun are original. I love a good ad. And a clever one even more.
Editorials
Tolls there to milk consumers, yes?
The most unfair aspect of the whole system is that motorists continue to pay escalating annual toll fees every year.
Editorials
KZN spat shows ANC is no monolith
Should the illegally elected leadership attempt to run the nomination process in the lead-up to the party’s national conference in December, there will be legal challenges.
Columns
Is it not time for the ANC-led alliance to consider breaking up?
Unless there is a radical change that would favour the continuation of the alliance, each of its components must accept their ‘sell-by’ date has expired.
Columns
Robin Hood was just a hood…
For ordinary South Africans to celebrate criminals as heroes is sending a terrible message to our kids.
Columns
Facebook thinks it knows me
I am starting to think that these social media apps have insight into information that we are not aware of.
Columns
Slay, nana: why I get people who flaunt what they don’t have on social media
Why I understand the actions of the WSU student who mistakenly received Nsfas millions and went balling with the money.
Editorials
The joke’s never on you, Trevor Noah
You remind us we can laugh at each other and at ourselves and that defining yourself by your colour is the real joke.
Editorials
Road users won’t miss you, Nazir Alli
He was abusive and dictatorial in forcing through the concept of e-tolls and was dismissive of all critics.
Columns
Kunene’s fake news and shot credibility
Kunene has flipped and flopped from one allegiance to the next. No wonder it’s nearly impossible to take him seriously.
Columns
Becoming a promised new man
A number of passers-by who had had similar surgery years ago confirmed that ‘I would be a new man soon’.
Editorials
Anderson doesn’t need to be ‘gutted’
It was his first Grand Slam final, surpassing his previous best finish of reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open two years ago.
Editorials
Zuma’s anti-Cyril plan is dangerous
The president may be able to avoid prosecution for good once Dlamini-Zuma is in charge in the Union Buildings.
Columns
A political dynasty is unfolding
Zuma has ensured the institutions that can be used to bring him to book are under the control of people not interested in the welfare of the rest of the country.
Columns
You’ve probably been saying happy birthday a lot lately
September is the month with the most birthdays.
Editorials
Knives are out for Zuma dissidents
The power play for Dlamini-Zuma’s rise to power is well and truly under way.
Columns
Er, but what if Kenny Kunene was telling the truth?
As a society, we seem to have agreed without any evidence whatsoever that the Sushi King must be lying – and probably just because it’s Kenny.
Columns
1Life insurance: A celebration of life
You can ‘say hello to today’ and celebrate it, secure in the knowledge that tomorrow is taken care of.
Editorials
Buoyant Boks out to buck trend
If they are to beat the Wallabies Down Under for the first time since 2013, they’ll have to be on top of their game.
Editorials
Bafana Bafana go from bad to worse
The Ghanaian referee who awarded a nonexistent penalty to Bafana in the November 2016 qualifier in Polokwane, which Bafana won 2-1 has been banned for life.
Columns
Bell Pottinger’s slop bucket runneth over
The company may be doomed, but don’t feel too sorry for the toffs who’ve been disgraced.
Columns
Boks have a lesson to pass on
Why our national soccer and cricket teams have, without putting too fine a point on it, been disappointing.
Columns
Over my dead body…
I also want people to lie at my funeral. It is something I have thought long and hard about and I am dead serious, pardon the pun.
Editorials
Kevin Anderson is tennis’ new superhero
The 31-year-old has over the last 10 days at Flushing Meadows shown his 2015 US Open quarterfinal appearance was no fluke.
Editorials
Cancelling 18-month-old traffic fines a good move
The move has sent a clear message to municipal authorities that they need to get their act together when it comes to traffic law enforcement.
Columns
So what if you fly the old SA flag?
Just because you may be sensitive about it doesn’t mean your reaction should be a general truth.
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