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‘Sounds of silence’: an hour from Joburg lies a reserve teeming with wildlife
Even with the wind gusting, you can hear the silence in Bothongo Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve. About an hour’s drive from Joburg, the 2 000ha of wilderness is a soul-soother after the hurly-burly...
View ArticleWomen learn to handle firearms
By knowing where you are and what’s going on around you is a good way to not make yourself an easy target for criminals. This emerged at Gun Owners South Africa’s Girls on Fire’s fourth annual range...
View ArticleIt’s not true Malema was targeted
The outrage over the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) having the temerity to charge Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema had his supporters drowning in...
View ArticleKruger National Park’s rhinos remain under constant threat from poachers
Despite an aggressive rhino dehorning project, the Kruger National Park’s rhinos remain under constant threat, with poachers having shifted tactics and direction of attack. More than 800 rhino were...
View Article7 SANDF members die in one day – What went wrong?
Questions are being raised following the deaths of submariners on Wednesday. Altogether, seven South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members died on the same day, with three from the navy and...
View ArticleDark days and empty plates as SA food insecurity takes wing
Avian flu and load shedding are the foxes wreaking havoc in the South African henhouse, threatening chicken and egg shortages which could run well into next year. Three of South Africa’s biggest...
View ArticleIsrael declaring war ‘will hurt SA’– expert
The implications of the Gaza/Hamas war for South Africa will be far-reaching, NorthWest University political analyst Prof André Duvenhage said yesterday. “One very important implication is the price...
View ArticleSun City’s solar farm triumphs amidst baboons and cranes
Baboons warming their bums in the winter morning and a massive crane were just some of the problems faced by engineers installing a 1.4-megawatt rooftop solar farm. And the problems are still coming,...
View ArticleSpotting the telltale signs of online scams
I almost miss the Nigerian “princes” who in their dozens a month would offer billions of dollars to help release their father or their mother’s enormous wealth which was being blocked by “wicked...
View ArticleBabies shot in their cots: Footage shows ‘greatest slaughter of Jews yet’
“Is anyone alive? Any signs of life?” Those were the words from a local police first respondent calling to any possible survivors of the massacre at the Re’im music festival massacre in Israel on 7...
View ArticleThe challenge of coping with fireworks
I hate fireworks. Three times a year, New Year’s Eve, Guy Fawkes and Diwali, I spend in the cupboard with my cats, all of us dosed with Rescue Remedy, curtains and windows closed and sound-deadening...
View ArticleMotata to know his fate as parliamentary committee debates impeachment
All Richard Baird has ever wanted since Judge Nkola Motata drove through the wall of his home in 2007 was for procedure to be followed and hopefully – after losing his family, home and business –...
View ArticleIt’s a fight to the finish
It is the evening of 23 March 2020 and President Cyril Ramaphosa has just left the nation stunned with his announcement the country would be going into lockdown as of 26 March. What was lockdown? What...
View Article‘Genocide charge is meritless’– US slams SA’s Gaza case
As South Africa gears up to present its case today against Israel before the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – SA has accused Israel of...
View ArticleIsrael’s genocide accusation: ‘The world is upside-down’
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola is adamant Israel yesterday failed in its attempt to defend itself at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against charges of genocide,...
View ArticleNo meat to Ramaphosa’s gristle
Vague, few tangibles, needed more clarity and action, not only talk – these were but some of the comments slung President Cyril Ramaphosa’s way following his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on...
View ArticleFrom ‘Hakuna Matata’ to life’s realities
When Pumba was a young warthog, along with Timon and Simba, their Hakuna Matata philosophy wasn’t a passing craze, as we know. Perhaps, it should have been. In 1994, The Lion King became an instant...
View ArticleWhy I’m hooked on fishing
I love fishing, but more than that, I love the idea of fishing. To qualify that, I need to go all the way back to the first fish I ever caught. My experience started well enough as a youngster,...
View ArticleToday’s good story is…
Ah yes, the joys of having no water. It’s like camping, but with no end game. Of course, it’s “camping” with responsibilities, after all. Dishes, laundry, cranky children who need to bathe before...
View ArticleHaving the rides of our lives
Her name is Thanda iNdlovu and with more than 200 000km under the bonnet, like most Toyotas, she’s barely run in. Thanda means like or love, while ndlovu can mean a surname or, as I’ve undoubtedly...
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