I hate myself

When I was in primary school, I could not stand having my cousins come home for the Christmas holidays.

What is Zahara's true love?

One great song can define the career of a major artist.

Celebrate South Africa

I hear the bananas farmed in Ehlanzeni taste so good all year round.

Spanking children is harmless and helpful, right?

So a mother slapped her child for not eating properly in a restaurant at Fourways Garden Shopping Centre and angered diners present there at the same time.

Baby splash it

Baby splash it

South Africa: You are the big bully

The scene is ugly: The girl is bloodied. She is crying. She is screaming for help.

Dear Vanessa: Who is African?

Dear Vanessa: Sorry to rain on your parade. I won’t take much of your time.

The big doom theory

Life is a lifelong party. Correction: Life is one big lifelong party and you are the life of the party. But when does the party come to life in this world?

Tweeting diplomacy: The era of the far right is here

What did Donald Trump do after he won the US Presidential election? Did he make arrangements to see the most important leader in the world after the US President: German Chancellor Angela?

Black Devil White Devil

Black Devil is the dingy old fishing boat

Where is the shebeen, Mr Molefe?

How about drinks this Saturday? I hear there is a great shebeen in Saxonwold.

Ghettolicious Mama

The old steam railway track never made it to Section K

Can boxing Victor teach us a lesson?

So Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin to teach him a lesson. They meant no harm at all.

Baby dance

How do I dance to this song baby?

Mos Def: What is under the bed?

There might be an old picturesque postcard from Santa Claus and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer in the North Pole or a long forgotten love letter wishing you the loving best from Claudia Schiffer if your name happens to be Seal.

Baby Still

Still is time since you left

Say South Africa: Where is Peter Parker?

I gather there is absolute mayhem on the streets of Braamfontein.

Donald Trump is not the problem. America is

Nothing trumps watching a delightful Reality TV show in the United States of America.

Sweet Mother Mary: Don't legalise the Jimi Hendrix experience

Mary-Louise Parker is simply sublime in her role as Nancy Botwin in the hit TV Series Weeds: a show about the heady life of a widow, a mother of two teenage boys; and her comic exploits selling marijuana in a posh upper class neighbourhood.

Tempting Uhuru

So President Uhuru Kenyatta felt the urge to report the USA to the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) for post-election violence.

Who do you like on Facebook?

Do you like that girl you went to primary school with?

Rat-tat-tat Doom-Doom-Doom

Rat-tat-tat-tat
Doom-Doom-Doom

Ditching lobola

Rethabile is 27. The man is in love. Well: he may not be head over heels in love. But he is certainly in a long-term relationship that is set to go to the next level.

Can tablets help learners improve at school?

A cognitive study conducted at Blair Athol School in Kromdraai, Johannesburg by Debbie de Jong – a learning specialist – found technology has the potential to have a positive impact on second language English language learners at primary school.

Is the media dead and buried?

I’m afraid so. The funeral was held on Wednesday.

The Congo Ali left rumbles on

Every minute detail surrounding Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman in 1974 smacked of Zaire’s other-worldly mystique and amplified the oddly-universal fascination with the Congo.

TB Joshua: Is there a problem?

Yes: Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump on Wednesday morning.

My big fat yellowbone

My girlfriend is ugly

America: Shame on you

Where do I begin? Well: This is the end for you and I and the rest of the civilised world it appears. And this time it is really the last time for us. There is no going back to the idealistic times that you and I shared in the past.

When is corruption mistaken for good fortune?

Is it when you are damn rich simply because, as rumour has it, daddy dearest is filthy rich as well?

Jozi my Jozi

Take me to Timbuktu for Christmas. Or should I go to Praia or N'Djamena? I could spend Boxing Day in Ouagadougou. Or I could simply serenade Ethiopian women in Addis Ababa before the dawn of the New Year.

Is justice blind to Africa alone?

Bark as fiercely as it may, the International Court of Criminal Justice (ICC) lacks teeth and struggles to find universal legitimacy in Africa.

Who is the man? Jay-Z or Magic Johnson?

Seeing Jay-Z on stage with Hillary Clinton looked meticulously staged. But staging great performances is what Shawn Carter does for a living.

What is the greatest film ever?

 

I do not get it: but my sister swears it is Pretty Woman. How can a film about falling in love with a highly paid female escort be that good?

From Russia with love

I cannot see Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia exchanging congratulatory messages on WhatsApp with President Bashar Hafez al-Assad of Syria or President Vladimir Putin of Russia just yet, but these three world leaders could have something in common in future: they might bag the Nobel Peace Prize for going to war against their people and those they nominate as enemies.

Don't scrap the fees. Scrap the system

What can three of four years of tough scholarly pursuits at a university afford you in the wildly exhilarating but strangely sobering aftermath of life after university?

Is trust the X-Factor in the US election?

America has serious trust issues to deal with.

"I hit it first". Sweet Jesus help Babes Wodumo

Babes Wodumo just had her Britney Spears moment.

What's the hullabaloo about Hillary?

Is it her dogged resilience?

In the heat of a moment

To the gorgeous afro-wearing lady in red: I’m not letting go

The drama before spring

The pathetic sight of a blasé Hosni Mubarak on Qatari TV station Al-Jazeera urging the feverishly brash and dogged protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to go home was a rather amusing but tragically pitiful affair.

Becoming Hakim Bello

As he left Nigeria, the hope of a first-class life abroad, drowned out the cacophony of doubts piercingly sounding in his head.

The slaves Dontre Hamilton met

I didn’t shed a tear the day you killed me in Milwaukee

Saturday Night Fever in Libreville

Africans love to dance.

Should Facebook ban nudity?

To all the women and men in South Africa: help me out for a second will you? Would you say there is nothing more to see behind the spectacle of a full-blooded and bare-breasted African female clad in traditional clothing than a public portrayal of African culture?

Happiness is a party

Life is a lifelong party. Correction: Life is one big lifelong party and you are the life of the party.

Dating destiny in a United Kingdom

Back in the 1940s, interracial relationships were anathema to most folks.

Houston we have a problem: Where is Western Sahara?

The thought of landing Apollo 13 - the American spacecraft, in a dessert, somewhere in Western Sahara, may have fleetingly crossed the minds of Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on April 17, 1970.

Faithless faith

It is a fairly mundane Friday morning in March, in Ummari, a small village on the outskirts of Maiduguru, the capital of Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria.

Siya Kolisi in a United South Africa

South Africans of all races often unite in support of The Springboks, Bafana Bafana or Olympic gold medal-winning athletes like Wayde Van Niekerk, Caster Semenya and Chad Le Clos when the call of national duty arises for loyal and passionate lovers of sport.