Collection of investigative reporting. With as background the ongoing push by the ruling party (and its sidekicks) for a restrective Information Bill and a punitive Media Tribunal. So get this before it's banned!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Before the ban
Interesting booklaunch this late afternoon at Boekehuis in Auckland Park, Jozi. At 630pm.
Collection of investigative reporting. With as background the ongoing push by the ruling party (and its sidekicks) for a restrective Information Bill and a punitive Media Tribunal. So get this before it's banned!
Collection of investigative reporting. With as background the ongoing push by the ruling party (and its sidekicks) for a restrective Information Bill and a punitive Media Tribunal. So get this before it's banned!
Friday, September 17, 2010
Messi's back
It's been a week-or-so with funny, crazy, lunatic, ridiculous, nice, sweet,... things happening on this globe that we could fill 250 Qu'rans, 130 Bibles, a trillion Twitters, and a whole series of novels. Human kind is rock 'n' rolling.
Pastor Jones and his burning feeling. 9/11 Remembered. Benni McCarthy's fat. Malema and Zuma (again and again). That pigspotter dude. Did I miss another Paris Hilton dope story? Oh and YES,... Barcelona's superstar Messi is back with a vengeance. The Champions League kicked off this week and the Argentinian just showed off his galactical qualities. It was just mindblowing to watch. Interesting how much a team can make a player shine. Here in SA during the worldcup Messi never shined with Argentina. But back in Barcelona it's just magic all over.
And let's not forget there is still no government in Belgium and Holland. The Pope has arrived in the UK amidst another storm about priests and kids. Eish!! Afghanistan is voting but you can buy voting cards on the black market for a few bucks. Tea Party candidates win in the US. Hope they don't ban coffee. Trouble in the Big Brother house. Is anybody still watching? Rhinos. Guns. Indigenous games. Lenasia. Baboons. Rising temperatures. The Reserve Bank and its decision. Toll and e-cards. BEE and ZEE. Rooney and his pants down. No play against Everton. Play against Rangers. Waka Waka shirts sold out. The French president cornered. His deportees deported. Banner Pilot remastered. Constitutional safeguards in SA. Durban. Patricia's new job. Water.
Pastor Jones and his burning feeling. 9/11 Remembered. Benni McCarthy's fat. Malema and Zuma (again and again). That pigspotter dude. Did I miss another Paris Hilton dope story? Oh and YES,... Barcelona's superstar Messi is back with a vengeance. The Champions League kicked off this week and the Argentinian just showed off his galactical qualities. It was just mindblowing to watch. Interesting how much a team can make a player shine. Here in SA during the worldcup Messi never shined with Argentina. But back in Barcelona it's just magic all over.
And let's not forget there is still no government in Belgium and Holland. The Pope has arrived in the UK amidst another storm about priests and kids. Eish!! Afghanistan is voting but you can buy voting cards on the black market for a few bucks. Tea Party candidates win in the US. Hope they don't ban coffee. Trouble in the Big Brother house. Is anybody still watching? Rhinos. Guns. Indigenous games. Lenasia. Baboons. Rising temperatures. The Reserve Bank and its decision. Toll and e-cards. BEE and ZEE. Rooney and his pants down. No play against Everton. Play against Rangers. Waka Waka shirts sold out. The French president cornered. His deportees deported. Banner Pilot remastered. Constitutional safeguards in SA. Durban. Patricia's new job. Water.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Togo is not Togo
It's crazy. Crazy with extra topping.
Earlier this month the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain played a friendly football match against Togo (in Bahrain) and were very happy with its 3-0 victory despite a boring game.
But what seems now.... Togo wasn't Togo!!! The Togo team on the pitch in Bahrain were imposters. Amazing! A total fraud. Bahrain's been had! It nearly feels like a candid camera situation.
Togo sports officials back in the capital Lome confirmed the official, national team never went to Bahrain. FIFA has now been asked to investigate this amazing fraud.
On top of that it seems that this international friendly was organised by a FIFA certified agent. Bahrain football officials say now that when they got the game sheet just before the kick off (as is the norm) the Togolese players' names were not the ones that they expected but the game went on anyway.
Mindblowing...
Earlier this month the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain played a friendly football match against Togo (in Bahrain) and were very happy with its 3-0 victory despite a boring game.
But what seems now.... Togo wasn't Togo!!! The Togo team on the pitch in Bahrain were imposters. Amazing! A total fraud. Bahrain's been had! It nearly feels like a candid camera situation.
Togo sports officials back in the capital Lome confirmed the official, national team never went to Bahrain. FIFA has now been asked to investigate this amazing fraud.
On top of that it seems that this international friendly was organised by a FIFA certified agent. Bahrain football officials say now that when they got the game sheet just before the kick off (as is the norm) the Togolese players' names were not the ones that they expected but the game went on anyway.
Mindblowing...
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Strike of a different kind
We kind of are used to strikes here. It's nearly an annual event. Nurses, teachers, cops, municipal workers, Pik It Up'ers,....
Later this month in Italy there will be a strike of another kind (and I hope it doesn't give ideas to certain South Africans): football players in the main league!!
Italy's association of football players have indeed announced a stay-away for the weekend of Sept 25-26. The reason is a dispute with the clubs they play for, as these clubs want to have the powers to force a player to accept a certain transfer to another club.
And thus the last weekend will see empty pitches and empty stadiums across Italy's calcio. Kick that!
Later this month in Italy there will be a strike of another kind (and I hope it doesn't give ideas to certain South Africans): football players in the main league!!
Italy's association of football players have indeed announced a stay-away for the weekend of Sept 25-26. The reason is a dispute with the clubs they play for, as these clubs want to have the powers to force a player to accept a certain transfer to another club.
And thus the last weekend will see empty pitches and empty stadiums across Italy's calcio. Kick that!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Fingers
A UK band published a song with as title: I'm Not Bulimic, I Just Wanted To See How Far I Could Stick My Fingers Down My Throat
Monday, September 6, 2010
Man on ladder
A man on a ladder near an electric fence at the moment of a ring at the door makes for a shocking encounter.
The ring at the door was a lady and a (her??) child spreading the Jehoha Witness gospel and assembling a fanbase ahead of an upcoming gathering of souls in Randburg.
The man, recently on a ladder, politely - but firmly - rejected the invitation. So his encounter with his electric fence was to meet the religious sales team. That's a sour. Sign from God or related ones, some (aka the believers) might say....
Same day, few hours later. Man, previously on the ladder, reads that the Californian punks Anti-Flag released a single called "The second coming of nothing". Another sign?!? Or revenge of the non-believers?
One thing's for sure. There is serious voltage flowing through that fence.
The ring at the door was a lady and a (her??) child spreading the Jehoha Witness gospel and assembling a fanbase ahead of an upcoming gathering of souls in Randburg.
The man, recently on a ladder, politely - but firmly - rejected the invitation. So his encounter with his electric fence was to meet the religious sales team. That's a sour. Sign from God or related ones, some (aka the believers) might say....
Same day, few hours later. Man, previously on the ladder, reads that the Californian punks Anti-Flag released a single called "The second coming of nothing". Another sign?!? Or revenge of the non-believers?
One thing's for sure. There is serious voltage flowing through that fence.
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