The rise in transnational terrorism in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, the SADC region and the Great Lakes region has made the continent to be engulfed in political bushfires that have stretched the military capabilities of affected states beyond...
So when you are in a foreign place, it only makes sense to visit the sites, learn some of the local language to get by and be more personable, including treating your pallet to local cuisine in whatever proximity. Engage the chef, waiters or event...
I am thinking here of jingles like ‘After doing the nice and nasty at the Desert Race do not forget the constitutional visit to our pharmacies dotted around our villages and towns’. But I must ease up on talking about these peripheral issues of...
In the next three seasons, the 16-team assembly will shed four sides on a permanent basis as the league returns to a format that existed pre-2004. The Premier League was then forced into a populist stance to increase teams from 12 to 16 in a move...
We just wanna talk so there’s no need to panic. We just wanna find out why they decided it should be during the coldest time of the year. As I write, there’s a menacing cold front creeping in to scupper those Father’s Day plans and put paid to...
I will not lie, it has been a bitter- sweet relationship, which at first I thought it is a normal thing for any relationship to experience. For the past months the complexion of the normal I am familiar with, changed and became so toxic and dangerous...
I'm embarrassed to say, but I only paid them attention in my adulthood and really because my oldest son had tried them out and enjoyed them.Over the years, seasonally we have Maggie 2 Minute noodles available in the house for those moments where...
The biggest talking point of the weekend was the Minister of Youth, Sport, Gender and Culture, Tumiso Rakgare’s choice to participate in a charity match over watching the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Zebras and Libya in...
The relay race analogy is relevant to the three levels of 10-year basic education. Ideally a seamless and flawless exchange of baton is supposed to occur from pre-primary and primary school, junior to senior secondary levels.But in reality there...
Unfortunately, it can help groups and individuals with less positive intentions to promote violent ideologies, create confusion and spread fear among the general public. Terrorists use a number of methods to indoctrinate and radicalise new...
Jagdish Shah and Township Rollers have been lovey-dovey since around 2012, but it all ended in bitter circumstances on May 31. The relationship, to borrow from a cliché, has irretrievably broken down.Now each party is back at their mother’s house,...
A head of cabbage remains one of the most affordable and diverse foods. Think about it, soup, coleslaw, fried cabbage, roasted cabbage, cabbage rolls. There's really a lot of meal diversity.Many times I hear about cabbage soup, it is associated...
There’s a firm belief that the commuter has now suddenly lost his reading skills as the waiting bays and buses are clearly marked with the various towns and villages.As someone once said, “I often think this planet is used by other planets as a...
But getting sick isn’t inevitable, in fact by practising good hygiene and taking steps to boost your immune system, you can give yourself every possible chance of staying well over winter.Be vigilant about hand-washing. This is the first and most...
I guess it is an appropriate question that can be applied in the context of the place of boarding public schools in our ever changing education landscape. Undoubtedly, boarding schools used to occupy a special place in the hearts of many parents and...
Militant Islamist group violence against civilians in the Sahel represents 60% of all such violence in Africa and is projected to increase by more than 40% in 2023.This uninterrupted escalation of violence has displaced more than 2.5 million people...
Such is the stature of the wildly beautiful sublime metropolis of Cape Town, South Africa. A city that effortlessly dispenses eternal memories no matter how often one breaches its shores.It is in its nonchalant offering of its not only...
At this point I had appreciated Mexican, Chicken and Minestrone Soup (had this one for the first time with mom in JHB). Just realised how I have such fond memories attached to the two times I discovered I loved these two types of soups.All the other...
There was a sense of menace in their criticism, like the purr of a lion feasting on an impala. The cynics smelt political gimmickry.The cynics smelt corruption. The cynics smelt bull dust if you would excuse the pun. The arrival of the bulls and...
The Olympics-styled competition, which is supported by the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC), is set to become Botswana's biggest multisport festival for businesses, and bring athletics mirroring the success of the Dubai Corporate Games.The...