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A true miscalculation - similar to when an ex-GC mayor crossed the floor to join the then ruling party which promptly lost elections and became a minority opposition. This was akin to diving head first into the devil’s embrace. She went to court....

Well, before I catch any strays let me just say it is the council by-law officers who are saying this. After years and years of sitting back and watching the city residents eat unhygienic food the officers got an epiphany and decided to sanction all...

Winning an argument with a bus conductor 3. Accountability Government has decided to constitute the Public Accounts Committee to ask the government captains ‘where is the money’. The committee chairing the hearings has been carefully selected by...

It is a contest where elegance meets diplomacy, and contestants answer life’s toughest questions like, ‘What would you do to achieve world peace?’ They introduced a Beauty with a Purpose component—where contestants go from runway queens to...

The streets of GC are teeming with motorists who should be stopped by police. In my considered view more than half the motorists in GC actually do not have driver’s licenses. Even the police force has a huge chunk of drivers who are not licensed....

To be more precise let’s just say to make my midriff more sensible. My wife had nicely kept chipping away at my resistance to shedding weight. That is, until one day a very thin colleague said she forgot to eat while I was fat and hungry. I decided...

Over the years, the power utilities have become more and more adept at euphemising their nomenclature to be less menacing. From the more menacing power cuts to the more palatable load shedding to the politically-correct load management, it has been...

It must be something in the National Stadium air that make seemingly short projects take forever to complete. Many would remember how more than a decade ago the people who are charged with coming up with good ideas came up with a good idea. The...

' In simpler terms: it might flood. That is what that jargon meant. When the weatherman say “flood,” we all know it is time to take him/her more seriously unlike when he/she says ‘fine but partly cloudy’. Last time out many paid the...

I think growing up for most of us it was cool to say ‘purchase an automobile’ which was actually simply ‘buy a car’. This has since faded like Sly Stallone’s six pack and is firmly in the rearview mirror. Yes, language keeps evolving but it...

It’s less ‘follow the money” and more “chase the missing decimal points.’ Unlike before it has not been given a Setswana name like the previous ones such as the Kgabo Commission. It is simply: the forensic audit. I think this is meant to...

It contains the collective wisdom of every parliamentarian who's ever worn it. Or maybe just a lot of hairspray. I don’t know and frankly I don’t ever want to know. I suspect it's actually a sophisticated surveillance device. It's...

Even the befuddled educators themselves! But the poison will soon drain out after a few weeks and then we will start accumulating the anger bundles for the next set of results. Usually this gathers momentum when PSLE results are out, JC pushes that a...

I am a functional teetotaler, which means I lead a perfectly normal life without relying on alcohol. Being a teetotaler means I have mastered the art of saying ‘no’ to the ever-tempting siren song of cocktails and beers. While many are debating...

Granted, it is an ill-fitting wig and so this advice should be taken with a large dose of PG. For quite a while I didn’t have the testicular fortitude to wade into this territory because my competence on the subject is akin to trying to build a...