One thing I dislike and like at the same time about the web is being anonymous. While I am always honest about my identity when I make comments or write on the web, I can understand why some people choose to be anonymous. My profile is open and I am ...
The recent South African matric results are no cause for celebration -- that much is clear. The question is: what should be done to improve them, assuming that this can be done without dropping intellectual standards so drastically that the descripti...
Maybe rising to the challenge would be a good start. Sociologists agree that few facets of the human experience so effectively transcend divisions to unite people as being able to communicate with each other effectively.
To do this, a shared "lang...
A lot has been written on TL about race and about racism -- some of it insightful, some less so, to say the least. I usually steer clear of writing about this because it is such a sensitive issue and because certain idiots will always try to capitali...
"Well, I'm from Mars," the professor says, "It's not too far from Venus, you know". His Gandalf-like appearance certainly endeared him to me before, but as he speaks he starts to look more Lord of Ward C than Lord of the Ring. And Mars is light years...
In the olden days when men were still allowed to sport handlebar moustaches and the children of Inkosi uSenzangakhona reigned over the lands of their forefathers, life was so much simpler. Anyone who spoke your language was your friend, and everyone ...
They say God created alcohol to prevent the Irish from taking over the world, which is true in the sense that they never bothered to colonise anything. Yet, if you look at this country of over 6 million souls, it is one of the most successful ex...
By Theo Mapheto
Just why leaders in South Africa insist on communicating with their followers in a foreign language beggars belief.
Take Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's address at Ntwampe in Limpopo Province on the occasion of the National...
Samuel Johnson argued that "he who voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces". As someone who hungers for as much information about as many things possible, I have a particular disgust for ignorance, particul...
Ask the average business executive or key government official precisely what their company or department does and their brains fall out of their head and jargon springs to their lips. Frothy meaningless terms might be fine when you fall in love or du...
