DogsDinner was told years ago the “office maketh a man”, but the oxymoronic way it has shaped British Prime Minister David Cameron has left Oom Doggie gaping.

Like a good Christian, convicted ruling party felon and disgraced former chief whip Tony Yengeni has decided to end the year on a note of grace towards his fellow citizens, or subjects.

Call it bitter or petty but it rings bells, many bells. When South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma visited Namibia last month, his national broadcaster, SABC television said in the news, “Both countries are members of the SACU. Both have not signed trade agreements with the EU pending clarification of certain issues”.

That organisation, World Vision, has a lot of vision indeed. It recently published an invitation for Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to bid for donation of
motorbikes, with a special positive discrimination towards Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) groups. It ended with a caveat: “Please note that motorbikes will be donated as they are (voetstood).

After surviving that scare where Network Africa listeners overwhelmingly threatened to turn away from the programme if it discontinued the customary cock-crow signature, the BBC editors of that programme not only retreated but offered that palliative of African proverbs contributed by readers everyday and extending the programme to weekend. Recently, presenter Audrey Brown collected kudos [...]

If you thought the so-called global citizen action was nothing more than an ephemeral sabre-rattling, think again. Remember the Freedom Flotilla of aid to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza? Remember how furious was international condemnation of its murderous break-up by Israeli aerial troops, cowering even the usually inflexible Washington’s heart to, at least, the [...]

Now, there is something called stretching things to their elastic limits, and some places and communities on the globe are very apt at it. A city council on the outskirts of Cape Town did exactly the same earlier this season, in DogsDinner’s pea-brained consideration. We know that public business must be transacted in the open, [...]

…DogsDinner had been wondering for some time why the newswire team that traded by the motto of Lesotho’s only daily news website had insisted on posting unchanged, a street advert of a news item on unions snubbing politicians, for well over eight weeks! The dog-eared thing was beginning to become either an eyesore or a [...]

…Reinventing the wheel? Was it not the same Clinton who, in one of the presidential debates with George H. Bush when he was pressed about his doping habits while at college said, “I just mouthed the thing but didn’t inhale”? Was it not the same Clinton who crowned his credentials of amnesia after retaining the [...]

…The media were quick to follow Ronaldo from pitch to cot-side as he became a brand-new father of a boy hardly a week after his ignominious exit from the world stage. He was keeping sole custody of the baby, the identity of whose mother he was keeping secret at the time. He was also asking [...]