Category Archives: this is south africa

Call off the World Cup!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 13, 2010

…and evacuate the country! Because, after much seismic activity around the globe this year, it seems that an expert has predicted the country is almost certain to be hit by a major natural disaster.  And it could strike during this summer’s footie tournament!!!!!! Yes, expert Dr Chris Hartnady thinks SA is about to be hit by an [...]

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The TMOMS T-shirt

By 6000 | 6000 | April 12, 2010

Every so often, I get a plea for advertising assistance that I am willing to assist with. Look, I do turn down most of the dodgy ones: selling tickets to Jonah Fisher’s self esteem workshop: Don’t Just Walk Out, for example. Or anything to do with homeopathy, the Builders Warehouse panga sale or celebrity Afrikaans voices for your GPS etc. OK, [...]

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Broken

By 6000 | 6000 | April 11, 2010

I went to gym today for the first time in ages. Not literally ages, as in Mesolithic, Jurassic, Paleolithic etc. That would just be silly. Blokes fought off velociraptors and dragged women around by their hair for exercise back in those days: there was no need for gym. Oh – and men had beards and said “Ug!” a lot. Thus, [...]

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Pick n Pay are redefining imperial measurements

By 6000 | 6000 | April 10, 2010

South Africa uses the metric system of measurement. There are two main reasons for this – firstly, to confuse British people, and secondly to make the village of Port Elizabeth seem just a little bit further away from Cape Town. Safety in numbers and all that. But there are disadvantages as well: after all, who [...]

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Race War Postponed

By 6000 | 6000 | April 9, 2010

The Daily Maverick’s Phillip de Wet has been following events up in Ventersdorp as the funeral of the controversial AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche takes place. The obvious intensity and gravity of the inflammatory situation there was summed up by his recent tweet: While this may all be very amusing, since there has (touch wood) been [...]

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