A music teacher at one of the Cape’s most prestigious schools stands accused of sexually assaulting at least six of his students.
After details of the schoolboy bullying suffered by Elon Musk went public yesterday his father has added his voice to the subject. Looks like Elon had it pretty rough back then.
We know that the world is full of disgruntled South Africans bitching and moaning about the state of our country, but would you have put Elon Musk in that bracket?
Once you grow up and stop drinking in public parks there is a certain decorum one is expected to display when sipping back on the bubbly. We’re offering you these friendly words of advice.
If you’re known to procrastinate your way through life, this nine-year-old filipino boy’s self-determination might just inspire you, as it did thousands of others.
There are still some massive problems South Africa has to face, and many of them seem to be stemming from the same sorts of places. Here’s another incident about racism in schools.
UCT have finally broken their silence on why Chumani Maxwele, the face of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign, was suspended last month. Their account doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
Oh, the price of a good education these days. Unless you’re a genius and are on a scholarship, you can end up paying through your teeth. So what are your options?
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It’s a painful thought that some people have nothing better to do with their time and that they have to focus on, truly, the most ridiculously small things that shouldn’t even be an issue.
There’s this little thing called “tact” – some people have it, many people don’t. Unfortunately there is no in-between. Watch these two news anchors really balls up a good moment.
All those people that do those “a photo a day for a year” projects – this guy is beating you all because he is doing it from the International Space Station and you’re doing it from your bathroom.
My enduring memory of my grandfather is of a wonderfully cantankerous old man pulling up his knee-high socks and muttering obscenities. My grandfather wasn’t the architect of apartheid however.
It used to be that when you wanted to splash some cash you bought yourself a Gulfstream jet and laughed at the peasants who couldn’t afford one. Here’s the new trend.
He might have gained worldwide fame following 2001’s ‘A Beautiful Mind’, but for those in the know John Nash had already been a superstar for years.
There’s the blow up doll in the movie Lars and the Real Girl, and then there are these guys… You’re going to be pretty impressed at these sex dolls. Oh, yes, you are.
Sex education is an important part of growing up. It’s a pretty obvious fact that we all need to learn about it, but is this the most un-awkward way to do it?
The man who was to many the face of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign has been suspended by the University of Cape Town. He is citing foul play.
Here’s a wonderfully entertaining video from inside North Korea and if you show your kids they will happily get up for school for the rest of their lives.
After taking on anyone who challenged his controversial statements last week, Mcebo Dlamini has been shown the door. It might get worse for the student in the coming weeks.
There are some people upon which general sentiment is divided between hero and villain. Adolf Hitler isn’t one of those, although no one told this guy.
That’s not a real teratoma in the image – so don’t get too hysterical. But could you even imagine having a part of your dead twin chilling inside your brain?
I imagine this is right up there with every father’s worst-case scenario, but you might want to suspend your sympathy until you have all the details.
There are a lot of race/religion/culture issues that Planet Earth is dealing with at the minute, so the timing on this might be a little off…
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Sometimes I feel it’s a real miracle that the planet hasn’t willingly self imploded itself so that aliens never see the stupidity that happens here…
South Africa is in the spotlight and it’s not a good one – we have the whole African continent on the verge of ganging up against us because of a few pig-headed individuals.
Ranjeni Munusamy from the Daily Maverick gives us a thoroughly thought-provoking piece on xenophobia and the real state of our nation.
With so much hatred so visible in the world currently, we need more people like this young lady to stand up and defend others when they’re not in the wrong.
He has been in great demand following the success of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign, but this is not the first time Chumani Maxwele has gained political attention.
First it was that dress, then it was a cat walking up (or down) some stairs and now it’s a maths problem. The internet can be a real drag sometimes.