Opinion: Handle Me With Care, Or Covid Coffee Context

Opinion: Handle Me With Care, Or Covid Coffee Context

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By HOWARD FELDMAN This morning, I realised why the world needed COVID and why we most likely still do. The backstory is this: early on in lockdown it became clear that my father was seriously ill and that he...
Opinion: Cutting Remarks, Or Vis-A-Bris Trolls

Opinion: Cutting Remarks, Or Vis-A-Bris Trolls

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By HOWARD FELDMAN It started, perhaps as it always does, fairly innocently. Sunday was the bris (circumcision) of my great nephew and because of COVID rules we could not be there. I had travelled to Israel in...
Opinion: Logging Off, Or Stung By Blue Bottles

Opinion: Logging Off, Or Stung By Blue Bottles

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By HOWARD FELDMAN First they came for the Tempo, and I did not speak out, because I wasn’t crazy about Tempo. Then they came for the Lays Salt and Vinegar chips, and I did not speak out, because I was always...
Opinion: Avoid A Grave Mistake, Or Dead Good Prices

Opinion: Avoid A Grave Mistake, Or Dead Good Prices

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By HOWARD FELDMAN Because 2020 wasn’t weird enough, South Africans are apparently now able to purchase coffins on popular retail site Takealot. The items sell for just under R5 000 per box and the company has...