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Hoping de Villiers Learns His Lesson

Saturday, September 04, 2010 
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The 2010 Tri-Nation has been a disappointment. Some would even call it a disaster, and I would not disagree with them much. See for me it’s not that the Boks surrendered their crown to the All-Blacks. Or that we lost so heavily in the Antipodes. John Smit losing his 100th Test in such heartbreaking fashion isn’t even it. No, for me the tr..»
 

Media Own Worst Enemies In Press Freedom Debate

Saturday, August 28, 2010 
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You know something is wrong when Jackson Mthembu comes across as the reasonable voice in any debate. The media is its own worst enemy in this whole brouhaha regarding potential media freedom infringements in the Protection of Information Bill and the mooted Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT). It should not ever be the most difficult thing to do..»

Boks Have A Chance At Redemption on Saturday

Saturday, August 21, 2010 
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Springbok skipper John Smit’s centenary Test could not have been filled with more drama and occasion. A century of Tests is in itself a big enough sub-plot for any match between the All Blacks and the Springboks. The clash of the two Southern Hemisphere rivals is, despite what anyone else may dare tell you, rugby’s greatest matchup. That th..»

Land , Bread and Power

Saturday, August 14, 2010 
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Barrack Obama is facing approval ratings previously reserved for members of the Bush family. Yes, that bad. And this after he has widened the healthcare net against stiff opposition. he has also just passed legislation that is expected to go some way towards limiting the more leveraged roulette antics of Wall Street’s finest. Add to that..»

Next To Capello, Pitso Has No Pressure

Saturday, August 07, 2010 
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I was going to write a piece about Pitso Mosimane’s first Bafana squad, but given I have a rather limited tolerance for police cells and I cannot say with any certainty that Bafana do not have sway in the corridors of power, I will stick to everyones favourite subjects of ridicule - England. I’ll spare our resident schizoid cranky/smug frie..»

Barca Killing Their Goodwill With Shameless Cesc Chase

Saturday, July 31, 2010 
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That Barcelona FC are one of the giants of world football is moot. That they represent, along with such iconic clubs as rivals Real Madrid, Ajax Amsterdam and Manchester United, the beautiful free flowing, attack minded face of the beautiful game. They are if you like, the yin to the organised, defensive oriented stylings of the Italian tr..»


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Siyabonga Ntshingila is a walking example of how not to go through life productively.

Having chanced his lackadaisical way through an education at one of the country's finest boy’s schools and a noted university, he then proceeded to unleash his special brand of inertia on the unsuspecting corporate world.

Alas, as with the Bernard Madoff's of this world, the scam could not go on forever, and like a de-Vaselined Ananias Mathe, reality caught up with him and he is now (thanks to the undue influence of his beloved) making a living as a freelance writer and a sub-editor of NewsTime