Category: Editorial

Growing up in Alex was interesting for me but I can imagine the fear my parents had for me. My father was an involved dad and I mean involved in every way possible. He never bought me All Stars because it was the kind of footwear thugs wore. Later in life I bought myself a...

To say whisky is an acquired taste would be stating the obvious. There’s a reason why teenagers head straight for WKDs and Lambrinis on their first forays into drinking, and not for a bottle of fine golden dram. But, like blue cheese, sushi or craft ale, learning to love whisky can be one of the...

Inspired by #WeAreComingForEverything. The most important hashtags of our generation. Have you seen how children would put their feet, wear and try to have their feet fitting their parent’s shoes? 99.9% of the time, it’s never the same sizes as theirs. It’s always bigger sizes than theirs. At that point they envision themselves having/wearing the...

Much of what we consider to be our identity can be found in the language that we use. We can learn so much about who we are from how our language is constructed. It is actually quite interesting how language shapes our perception and experiences of the world. There’s a term for it, it’s called...

Ahhhh… the age old question of “who should pay on the first date?” It’s a minefield for the modern dating man. Try and do the gentlemanly thing, and you could end up looking a sexist dinosaur; split the bill, and the only thing you could end up kissing goodbye is the chance of a second...

Wo khulum’ uwabale amagamakho singabase Mndeni so sang a group of boys a few years ago, as they walked past my house from a soccer match, presumably victorious. I remember thinking I wonder how many of them will play for our national team; make their families proud, become ambassadors of our possibility and rising above...

The best television series of the 90’s The Wire. Run: 2002-2008, 60 episodes “Sheeeeeeeeeit.” Former crime reporter David Simon conceived his mighty drama as a modern-day Greek tragedy. A morality play set in a drug-ravaged urban hell, where everyone is compromised and the system is broken. Novelistic in scope and depth, it forensically unpeeled each...