Category: Lifestyle

If we are employing dramatics, and in our theatre of manufactured outrage President Jacob Zuma is Public Enemy Number 1, then black success is Public Enemy The Original. Everybody hates black success. And nobody hates black success more than black people. We have been conditioned to. Along with our conditioning to suffer, to accept poverty,...

For most of us who were born in the 80’s, it wasn’t really clear what the commotion was about during that time. We knew that we were born in to a system that, essentially, didn’t want us. We knew from a young age that there was this thing called being black and it meant that...

A healthy relationship needs someone carrying the masculine energy (usually the man) and someone carrying the feminine energy (usually the female). In a relationship the people/energies react to each other. When you interact with someone who has more feminine energy than you, you tend to occupy a masculine space in relations to them. When you...

THE MEET-UP Mr. K watches as Ms. P gets up and leaves. He pays the bill and walks across the street to meet his brothers for lunch with a new pep in his stride, a spark in his eye and a cheeky grin on his face as he smiles at Ms. A who is heading...

Two days ago I showed my students the study of Professor Sut Jhally on the Codes of Gender; based on the story of Erving Goffman’s analysis of advertising. What Professor Jhally does is to apply these codes (as expressed by Goffman) to our contemporary commercial landscape. As most readers of this site are in some way or another...

Regardless of who your favourite superhero was, at some point during your childhood (and maybe even now!), you wondered what it would be like to own a Bat Mobil. Batman’s car has to be one of the coolest vehicles ever made! Matte black with lines and edges across the enter length and width of the...

HANNIBAL (JUNE 4, NBC) NBC’s Hannibal, starring the excellent Mads Mikkelsen in the titular role, has had some difficulties generating the kind of audience that would secure its run on television for years to come, but that hasn’t stopped it from amassing a small and devoted following, and for good reason: Hannibal is one of...

Nothing in the motoring world is unique these days. Japanese cars are looking more European, American cars are looking more Japanese and the Germans, well they remain distinctly German in their approach (with the exception of Mercedes’ new C Class). The industry gives birth to new segments every 9 months now but these niche segments...