Category Archives: annoying people

Hope for Bafana yet

By 6000 | 6000 | September 17, 2009

Ask any (non-whining) South African about the World Cup next year and they’ll tell you two things: Firstly, it’s going to be brilliant, exciting, amazing; and secondly, Bafana Bafana don’t stand a chance. We’re talking cat in hell, snowball in hell, fishcake in… hell (?) stuff here. No chance. At all. Not even a little [...]

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Bloke dies after being ill for some time

By 6000 | 6000 | September 15, 2009

A chain-smoking man died yesterday after being ill for some time. The 57 year old man’s career was in acting and he had starred in several films including one about dancing and another one about a ghost. Some people pretended to be very sad about the man dying, even though they didn’t really know him at all. [...]

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Morne Harmse – sentence is passed

By 6000 | 6000 | September 14, 2009

And the recriminations can now begin. Morne Harmse, the schoolboy with the masks and the Samurai sword who killed a fellow pupil at his Krugersdorp School last year, was this week sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison. And of course, there are those who think this is too lenient and those who think it [...]

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They (we) hate us (them) for what we (they) did to them (us)

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2009

Following allegations from his wife that he only married her to stay in Canada, the Brandon Huntley saga rumbles on, with new allegations surfacing today that the “white” man that “blacks” love to hate may not actually be “white” at all. Which make his ongoing allegations that black people attack him simply because he is [...]

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Quick but important…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2009

Having just arrived home after a hellish day, I find that I have a hellish evening in front of me. Although I wanted to blog about Justice Malala’s column in The Times this morning, I have to empty the old study completely this evening so that it can be converted into a playroom for the [...]

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