There were police out and about. The traffic lights worked and when they didn’t there were actual cops doing point duty. There was no disruption, no bottlenecks, no taxis running harum scarum.
The Six Nations rugby disciplinary committee’s decision needs to be scrutinised
An Australian man escaped jail this week after being convicted of sending 23 parcels of his own excrement to Hollywood stars Leonardo di Caprio and Jared Leto.
#RugbyWorldCup – Has Rassie Erasmus done it again?
Almost as soon as the squad was read out, the conspiracy theorists and keyboard warriors hit cyber space with their theories and vented their spleen.
The controversy around Julius Malema’s comments opens up the genocide debate
Singing “Kill the Boer, the farmer, Phrrr pah” isn’t a clarion call to the melanin challenged to pack for Perth, but it was already weaponised as such on social media.
VIP Protection cops – an appalling act of vicious bullying
On July 2, eight members of deputy president Paul Mashatile’s SAPS protection detail pulled over a VW Polo on the M1. They got out and started kicking the four occupants,
Joburg CBD gas explosion – the system remains rotten
This week City Power, Johannesburg’s metropolitan power supplier, announced that it would no longer replace electrical wiring stolen by cable thieves.
Stadium management must play its part when things get heated
No sooner had the final whistle blown on the 42-12 win than some of the spectators started moering each other in true Pretoria fashion – and they were all Bok supporters.
Carping Point: SAPS VIP protection unit – the only solution is to disband ‘blue light bullies’ in its current form
There has been much anger and disbelief after footage of two BMW M5s stopping on the N1 just past Fourways in Johannesburg showing six men getting out and beating up three people in another car went viral this week.
A glum Cyril Ramaphosa is a real nowhere man
There are plenty of plans – and often it seems like a commission of enquiry and/or a committee for each.
What next, a Minister of Earthquakes?
There was a tremor measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale just after 2.30am on Sunday morning.
Kevin Ritchie 