Captains Of Industry
Nineteen years of lawlessness in Somalia is paying off for the peasants turned pirates. Their industry is booming and the shipping world is powerless to stop it.
Africa’s tin-can version of Twitter has it right
The story of journalist Ezra Sibanda and SW Radio. He sits in London and broadcasts to Zimbabwe via short wave. He draws a massive rural listenership and provides a crucial service to the people of Zimbabwe by dragging a finger down his list of 45 000 numbers and calling at random.
Read the full story at The Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader.
Africa’s “Burning Man” reveals the secret to making friends
A girl we’re with strips down to her bra and panties and goes off into the desert to paint people fluorescent. Ten skips later two men in jester hats stop the bra and panties and ask for their faces to be painted. She obliges but comes over after, crouching in the dust, and complains why people are making such a big DEAL – it’s just flesh.
Read the full story at Open Salon.
If you were the UK, would you give Africa money?
August 27th, 2010: Evil Santa Claus Andrew Mitchell is in the process of training the British public to accept international aid as a force that discriminates rather than helps. Can this be reversed before the UK’s aid budget skips Africa altogether?
Read the full article at The Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader.
Men off the hook with HIV gel
2 Aug 2010: A new gel designed to help prevent the spread of HIV may be used to pander to male irresponsibility over safe sex.
Read the full article on The Guardian’s website.
Throw The Bones Away
The conflict between traditional healers and conventional doctors: it doesn’t have to be a choice. You can take the best from both.
Winner of a CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the year award
Blood Money
This question: is it ethical to pay people periodically to stay HIV negative, but then stop if they become positive?
Nominated for a CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the year award
Bang on Target
While on company business in a foreign country you’re a prime target to manacled, beaten and ransomed fro millions.
Nominated for an MPASA Pica in investigative journalism 2011.
Face your fears feature
Swimming with sharks, stand-up comedy, public nudity,
being attacked by dogs and getting nailed into a coffin.
5 fears conquered in this award nominated article.
You’re HIV Positive, now what?
You’ve fumbled with a condom or sweated through an HIV test – but what if that one-night stand actually came back positive?
A feature on anti-retrovirals.
Winner of the Pica for Public Interest Writer of The Year (2008)
Soweto Muscle feature
Award nominated article on township gyms.
Don’t Drink The Water
A special report on drink spiking – interviewing a confessed, “reformed” but not convicted rapist of several hundred women.
Cash Cow
I grab a slice of pizza and wonder if this girl likes me, what her breasts would look like without the
restricting blouse and if she’d cost 20 or closer to 30 cows if we ever got married.
Destroy Your Enemy
Apartheid spies and letting go of hate.
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The Bleeding Edge
The gel they put on your face before they set you on fire is freezing cold.
This is the stuntman’s workout.
If you wait on set for too long you’ll start to physically shake. Before they set you alight, you’re dressed in a jumpsuit – like what your grandfather wears to bed - and you’re disguised as the 20 million dollar actor you’re replacing.
Published February 2008
Electric Amino Acid Test
No parent wants to medicate a 10-year-old. Even if he’s throwing temper tantrums and can’t concentrate. Are you actually going to give him drugs or start him eating?
Published October 2007
Fuel Injected
With professional sport being ravaged by steroid controversy, what of the average guy? He’s alive
and well and shooting up in the privacy of his home.
Published in December 2007
Back Track
Two buck naked people can’t sustain a relationship alone - they need music to anchor their intimate moments. Unfortunately at the cost of their favourite tunes.
Published June 2005
Curse of the Sexual Wasteland
Is your house too pristine to have sex in anywhere but the bedroom?
Published in Men’s Health Living magazine
The Day I Said No
No booze, no wheat, no dairy, no sugar, no caffeine, no red meat - one writer gives up everything in the name of health. But then what’s left?
Richard E. Grant
After his stint in South Africa a few years back every journo has a Richard E. Grant interview. Here’s mine.
Pucker Up
Ice hockey is violent, exhilarating and always worth a first time.
Swinger’s Club
The circus might be for freaks and bearded ladies, but you have to give it a shot.
The writer tries his hand at the trapeze.
Living Alone In Happiness
Decided eternal love is a myth? Here is one man’s take on how to be loved, get laid and have a kid without having to sign your life away.
Death and Glory
The writer enters a government hospital to find the heroes of the health system, illuminate what they do and get tips for healthy living.
Three’s A Crowd
First person account on abortion and how the decision affects men – when they don’t feel like it’s their decision to make.