The Elephant     Let's address the rather large elephant in the room, shall we?     If you're reading this and you're a white South African, congratulations – you are privileged and have benefited from Apartheid. You know it, I know it and so does everyone else.     That's the plain and simple [...]

  As anyone who saw the South African fans leaving in droves this evening could tell you, support is the slipperiest substance known to humankind.     Tonight something fairly tragic happened – Bafana Bafana lost 3 – 0 to Uruguay and were shunted (almost) out of the first round of the Soccer World Cup. Now, whether [...]

Hi,   You don't know me and I don't know you. Now, I know that doesn't stop you from assuming that I'm just as ignorant and racist as you are but please don't.   If you should see me in the street handing a South African flag to a child or putting flags on my [...]

  In what is sure to be the latest quote that irritates people, Brigadier Chipu has said that crime is "not as big a problem as people thought". I'm always a little leery of taking quotes directly from media about things like this but I don't see how else you could interpret "It is safe, [...]

United 4 Bafana Bafana bracelet … check   Series of South African flags … check   Car window flags … check   Awesomely cool SWC Adidas shirt … check   Tickets to see a game … chec … wait a minute. No.   That’s right – I have absolutely no tickets to see a game. [...]

So, our TopTV is done and dusted. It's pretty cool really – there are some kinks and the content is a little old but I like it     Retro is so for me – and with the supposed addition of 50 new channels (10 HD) by the end of the year I'm keen.   [...]

is much shorter than I expected, the quest is over   I have TopTV and so far it's pretty good. I'm enjoying the programming (it's mostly old) and I much prefer the interface to that used by DSTV.   Bit of an anticlimax really. They've made it easy and it shows – if the call [...]

    Some people may not have even heard of them yet – I know quite a few who hadn’t – but TopTV is the talk of the country today as they took a running kick at the Multichoice monopoly.   With their launch date set as May 1st and 50,000 decoder units shipped to [...]

Taking a trip to my local Spar today, I see that even the vendors (those purveyors of quality Fakely, Swutch and Nikee goods) have hit on the soccer world cup price gouging tradition. I was offered a genuine, no-frills Soccer shirt for the princely sum of R280. Madness.