2009: The Kak Year in Review
Take a fond look back at 2009 with this list of memories adapted from Complete Kak! - a whinge list so long that we had to bring it to you in three parts:
The inexorable rise of Twitter
"Twitterers", "Tweeting" and "Tweets" are everywhere there days. You just can't escape it. On the back of its exponential growth as a website, Twitter has become as much a part of everyday life as that other social-networking abomination, Facebook. Works of the devil, the both of them.
What it all boils down to is unrestrained 21st-century egotism running amok on the back of unrestrained 21st-century faddism. So while Ashton Kutcher - who by August this year had more followers than the population of Kuwait - and Ellen DeGeneres and UK radio hack Jonathan Ross and loathsome tennis-jerk Andy Murray and other B-grade swollen-head pseudo-celeb attention seekers go crazy with their BlackBerrys and iPhones telling people exactly what they're doing, down to the last, most inanely arbitrary detail, the rest of the cognitively defunct sheep out there look on in amazement and think, "Wow! I can't be left out!
Schabir Shaik being granted medical parole because he is going to die "some day"
Dear Schabir, the nation owes you a heartfelt apology for the undue stress and discomfort you've had to endure while sleeping on a hospital bed and eating takeout before your comrades managed to organise you a medical parole. Luckily you had a spot of high blood pressure rather than Aids-induced pneumonia! Enjoy the Struggle-like kudos you'll no doubt have thrown your way until your dying day. And do let us know when that is. We wouldn't want to miss it.
The Caster Semenya gender scandal
The sports story of the year was as shameful as it gets, a microcosm of South African political self-interest and racial obsessing at its worst. After three superb South African performances at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin - two of which were quickly forgotten (well done to Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Godfrey Khotso Mokoena) - the scandal surrounding gender testing of women's 800m winner Caster Semenya took off like a Leonard Chuene-tipped nuclear missile.
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- Complete Kak!: The Comprehensive Whinger's Guide To South Africa And The World by Tim Richman, Grant Schreiber
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