Putting 'disaster' into movies
10/07/2008 13:03
Georgina Guedes, a dedicated moviegoer, is finding the joy of movies is detracted from by bad sound quality, poor focus, and shoddy service, every time.
Friends in all the right places
03/07/2008 13:13
Georgina Guedes has started making an effort to support her local greengrocer and butcher, rather than shop at chain stores. The service is more personal, and it's better for the planet.
Over the hills
26/06/2008 13:00
Having entered her thirties nearly four months ago, Georgina Guedes reflects on what it's like to be getting old.
A step beyond rhetoric
19/06/2008 08:44
Georgina Guedes feels that the ANC should not continue to endorse someone who calls for violence and anarchy.
SAHRC slams 'killing for Zuma'
Youth Day 'not about Zuma'
Malema's comments slammed
The horror of Sun City
12/06/2008 13:11
Georgina Guedes saw Chris Rock this past weekend. The show was great, but she's always amazed that people flock to the horror of Sun City.
Obama wins the race
05/06/2008 12:31
Giving up on her hopes for a woman in the Oval Office, Georgina Guedes is excited at the prospect of a black American president.
Service with a frown
29/05/2008 13:13
Georgina Guedes flew down to Cape Town on a low-cost airline last week. But that was her last experience of good service while she was down there.
Rite of passage, right to party
23/05/2008 13:30
Having got home-buying, marriage and her 30th out of the way, Georgina Guedes wonders what, other than children, is next.
Democracy is not just for us
15/05/2008 09:35
Xenophobic attacks breaking out in Alexandra are a sad reflection on the basic human kindness of South Africans, says Georgina Guedes
A crisis of our own making?
Eskom criticism 'xenophobic'
2 killed in Diepsloot
Get off the bus!
08/05/2008 10:39
A visiting German cousin gives Georgina Guedes the chance to do some tourism in her own country. First stop, Soweto.
Rock 'n Role-model
01/05/2008 10:01
Georgina Guedes thinks the fuss that Americans are making over the "shocking" Miley Cyrus photos is ridiculous.
Miley 'sorry' for racy shoot
America's billion-dollar girl
Stop sending me petitions!
24/04/2008 13:00
Eskom rate hikes, starving dogs, sign here to make a difference. Georgina Guedes thinks that petitions are the lazy man's excuse for not actually doing anything.
Mbeki's double standards
17/04/2008 13:03
Quiet diplomacy is one thing, but Georgina Guedes thinks that Thabo Mbeki telling the world to wait for the results of the Zimbabwean elections is ridiculous.
The view from the stoep
10/04/2008 12:37
After working for nine months as a freelancer, Georgina Guedes takes stock of what it really means to raise a business baby.
Chit-chat and flame wars
03/04/2008 13:15
Don't join e-mail mailing lists unless you have time to kill and an itchy delete button finger, cautions Georgina Guedes.
Putting people first
27/03/2008 12:47
Georgina Guedes has a novel suggestion. How about we give the SAPS some procedural training about police brutality?
There goes the neighbourhood
20/03/2008 12:24
Georgina Guedes is concerned about the rate at which Johannesburg trees are hacked down to make space for townhouse developments.
Disabled? Just crawl...
13/03/2008 12:47
Georgina Guedes is disgusted by the discriminatory and unfair way in which disabled passengers were treated on a recent SAA flight.
'This is blatant discrimination'
Too late to apologise?
06/03/2008 12:25
Racial tensions are running high in the Rainbow Nation. But Georgina Guedes feels that the resulting discussions are healthy ones to be having.
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