Today In Fact, 6 October
Very few days have a city, a university and highway named for it. This day…
Today In Fact, 5 October
A great humanitarian, dissident, poet and leader was born today in 1936. Vaclav Havel was…
Today In Fact, 4 October
It’s strange how animals teach us things. I had a cat called Scruffy. The ugly…
Today In Fact, 3 October
Veni, vidi vici. I came, I saw, I conquered. Today in 52 BC the Gaulish…
Today In Fact, 2 October
The author of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was a very British…
Today In Fact, 01 October
I got in to the University of Cape Town because I had done accountancy at…
Today In Fact, 30 September
The writer of these immortal words was born today as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī in…
Today In Fact, 29 September
Michaelmas. The day when the Archangel Michael beat the devil in the battle for heaven…
Today In Fact, 28 September
Just under half of the population of the earth live without basic sanitation. That means…
Families Foundering in SA
Despite the fairly large drop in crime rates since 1994 (this year’s upward blip notwithstanding),…
Today In Fact, 27 September
Funny how some things just stick in your head? My history teacher in Standard 6…
Today In Fact, 26 September
In philosophy it takes at least three generations of human thinkers to produce human flourishing….
Doing one thing that matters
Michael Baretta describes his and Camilla Howard’s “Trekking for Trash” around SA’s coastline, and the…
Today In Fact, 25 September
The power of small groups in the promotion of democracy and citizen agency has a…
Today In Fact, 24 September
Today we celebrate the kind of political compromises that made our country. King Shaka was…
Today In Fact, 23 September
Sigismund Schlomo Freud died today in 1939. His cancer was so smelly that his favourite…
Today In Fact, 22 September
We owe our horror of killing unarmed civilians, our repugnance to genocide in large measure…
Today In Fact, 21 September
There are it would seem, four basic ways to think about truth. The first and…
A Story of a Chicken and an Egg
WHAM!’s Sarah Britten at Ted-x on the chicken and the egg, and telling our stories…
Today In Fact, 20 September
Perhaps one of the most significant battles in recorded history was fought today off the…
Patty Hearst, Robert McNamara, and the lefty SA university
By Douglas Racionzer. The most money I ever raised was 100 million US dollars in…
Today In Fact, 19 September
A remarkable man was born today in Brazil in 1921. Paulo Frere the father of…
Ubuntu Gone Wrong
I have been accused (and rightly so, to some extent) of being too pro-Africa, without…
Today In Fact, 18 September
Inedia or breatharianism is an extreme form of ascetism in which practitioners claim to live…
Breaking up is easy to do
Top family lawyer Ceri von Ludwig on SA’s easy divorce laws, and how these affect…
20 years of transformation
If the chattering classes think the ANC will be cut down to size next year,…
Today In Fact, 17 September
In my youth I encountered a few people who expressed what may be called ethical…
Today In Fact, 16 September
The French Revolution had many consequences. Perhaps one of them was the British colonization of…
Today In Fact, 15 September
My father was an 11 year old London lad during the Blitz. He remembers that…
Today In Fact, 14 September
Today we can celebrate the man who invented Italian. Born in Florence in 1265, Dante…
Today In Fact, 13 September
What does one do when your political masters are oppressive, pompous asses? You use their…
A Humble Man’s Call
Small in size, an amateur runner and bank storeman, Claude Moshiywa decided to win the…