 | Ask any football-loving weaver bird whether Bafana coach Joel Santana should be fired, and he’ll nod his lil’ beak without a moment’s hesitation. Because weavers have a powerful management skill that human beings rarely possess: the courage to abandon a costly but doomed project. ...read more |
Flipping Santana the Bird
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 by Carlos Amato
Caster-Gate: the real Villains
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 by Carlos Amato
 | So Butana Komphela reckons Caster Semenya is “the new Saartjie Baartman”. The comparison is an insult to both women. It trivialises Baartman’s story, and cynically sensationalises Semenya’s. ...read more |
The Rage in Randburg
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by Andrew Thompson
 | Finally! I thought, as the thick red blood pulsed out of the furious fighter’s right ear. Blood! I’d sat in this sweaty unlit gym hall for nearly 2 hours without so much as a drop of the red stuff. But now it was thumping out by the gallon-full, in time with his solid heart beat. ...read more |
Bingo Hall Terrorist
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 by Richard Asher
 | I can’t believe I devoted the whole of Sunday watching a sicko who preys on the elderly. I’m talking about a callous brute of a Yank who’d rob a pensioner at home and then run over their poodle on the way out. ...read more |
Sporting Gods
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 by David Dunton
 | After watching Brazil win the Confederations Cup, my blood began to boil. Not because some namby-pamby soccer player had taken one Oscar dive too many. Or because Brazil’s exuberance in beating Bafana in the previous round verged on arrogance. But rather because Kaka and his fellow glory boys whipped off their playing shirts to reveal under-shirts bearing slogans like ‘I belong to Jesus’ and ‘I love Jesus’. ...read more |
Blame it on the Boogie!
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 by Craig Jarvis
 | Dane Reynolds is the future of professional surfing. That’s what every media platform is shouting about right now. He has the flair, the talent, the attitude, the intelligence and, apparently, the looks as well. Last year things were a bit different. ...read more |
Hey J-Bay
Monday, July 13th, 2009 by Craig Jarvis
 | It’s that time of the year again when the travelling circus known as the World Championship Tour of Surfing sets up camp in J-Bay. You can expect sponsored man-children behaving badly, looser than average groupies, snooty surf wannabes, posers, gangsters, pros, surf-obsessed families with dogs, egos, chest thumping, calamari ...read more |
Bodies in Motion
Monday, July 6th, 2009 by Sean O'Toole
 | I admire JM Coetzee for more than just his laconic approach to making sentences. I too share in his admiration for the bicycle, that simple piece of architecture that makes momentum and speed possible. ...read more |
Not The Most Amazing Coach
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 by Andy Davis
 | Let’s be honest for a minute here, Peter De Villiers is not a world class rugby coach. Yes, yes, pipe down all you new dispensation, upwards-managing, pro social engineering, politically-correct arselickers. And stop applauding over there you overzealous, unreformed white racist fucks. This is not about race. This is about talent. ...read more |
Boo-th!
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by Carlos Amato
 | Yassass, but these international newshounds can be dof! Visiting reporters from leading Spanish paper El Pais and La Confidencial of Argentina fired off indignant articles this week decrying the “racist black fans” who booed Matthew Booth, Bafana’s only white player on the pitch against Iraq. Several other Spanish-language papers worldwide have reportedly also seized on the “story”. ...read more |
