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Osama bin Laden is in Mauritius. It RaWKs here biyatches!!!

Tweet It may happen one day that you find yourself heading west out of Johannesburg, down Main Reef Road, pass the intersection with Leratong Hospital on your right, en route to Randfontein.I can’t say what Randfontein offers that would warrant the excursion, but it may be that the fate of the free world depended on it, or not.Either way you’ll... read more

from the archives

Tweet Three poppies from back in the day, before we knew the things we know now, and after we learnt most of the important stuff. (lengthier feel-good retrospective inner-fuzzy-smiley aw-shucks-sweet post to... read more

the ‘Ville weekend

Tweet Gran needed weekend company and I was keen to drive – anywhere – even if it was down Main Reef Road towards Azaadville, maintaining the ridiculous 8okm/h limit while dodging cars that should’ve been pensioned off to scrap heaps when the Nats were still in power and taxis who use their hazards as indicators (whats it gonna be mfwetu,... read more

Saaleha doesn’t live here anymore

Tweet I’ve got a small-town heart and a big-city mind. And after 22 years of living in the ‘ville, I’m moving closer to the big, bad, beautiful city. Azaadvile wasn’t exactly Ed’s Shit Towne, it was more like the “the muftis live up the street from me, the fiqh-dealers live down the street from me”. Think small town,... read more
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