Seems like it’s “Use a Big Word This Week” week but someone forgot to tell me – Angelina Jolie says she got a ‘double mastectomy’, just to play it safe says she.

A new book with Mother Theresa’s letters details how the old lady had begun to doubt that God even exists.

Is it just me or have the good people of Limpopo been hogging all the front page news lately? Seems to me there’s always at least one Limpopian involved in every story

I only know their preferred perfume fragrance, every mistake they’ve ever made, I know who they’ve had affairs with, all their personality flaws and work history and other more intimate details

The reporting was as pathetic as I’ve come to expect, it was like the NBC and CNN type of reporting all rolled into one.

What did Diana do to deserve all that fame and British Taxpayers money?

Do we not agree that AA is unfair? Do we not agree that it has failed (in corporate SA) to bring on board enough Black people to co-lead, co-own and guide the economy?

Whistling is still the best way to lift ones spirits no matter who says what

My family was tired of me always being behind with what’s new and exciting in Joburg so they dragged me to The Zone in Rosebank for the new “best” thing.

One thing I never want to do is prolong my welcome in this world - whenever I say this people always ask "But Peter, don't you want to see your grandkids?"

Sometimes when I’m stressed out about life, I allow my mind to wonder and roam far and wide

The Indian Curry Incident, Russians and Apologies from Malcolm X

If memory serves me well, I think it all started with the Indian Curry Incident in Fordsburg on a nice, warm, relaxing Sunday afternoon

When it comes to our horrific and depressing crime situation, I live in a few parallel but totally different realities

Up on the rolling hills of Ixopo, quite hidden from the main road, somewhere in Natal sits the Catholic boarding school, Little Flower School.

So I cut minute steaks into strips, threw them in a pan of hot oil, then I threw in a tin of chakalaka and to my great shock and total surprise, the stuff tasted and looked a lot like beef stroganoff

I’d enjoyed a nice, long, invigorating jog the previous evening and now this morning, at middle age, I was feeling every inch of every muscle

A fish, a cat, a dog, a bear, or all the animals in the zoo go on a quest to find their roots, or parents, or a life lesson, or all of the above.

Firstly, some kind of disclaimer will be in order I guess: I acknowledge the fact that there are probably a good many Caucasian brothers and sisters who live decent

Every second day someone pops up here or elsewhere claiming (or strongly implying) to be the voice of reason in a sea of lies.

Some are direct descendants of the great San nation that occupied the southern lands of South Africa, some are descendants of Malaysian slaves.

Imagine how life would be if we really took to heart what some of our peers told us and really did not talk about politics, sex, race & religion?

It may sound hackneyed and clichéd, but our strength truly IS in our diversity - and each and every one of us CAN make a difference.

There are personal opinions that a President of a country is supposed to keep to himself.

This is the unspoilt beauty of rural South Africa, but it can be unforgiving for the less cautious...

Nothing gets South Africans jumping around more than the race issue.