Mercury rising: 1966 Comet restored to life
Long before Toyota had Lexus, Ford had the Mercury nameplate; this is one of the very few in South Africa.
Cheers to FCB for great SA advertising
Ad agency FCB is celebrating its 90th anniversary in South Africa, and Brendan Seery has a Bouquet of Orchids for them.
WATCH: FCB at 90 - Kids say the darndest things
Cute animals are always scene-stealers in movies or advertising but kids steal the limelight from even the cutest puppy.
WATCH: FCB at 90 - Must love dogs
Sometimes animals in ads are cute, but sometimes they cause ructions, as when the Cell C dog annoyed a few Mother Grundys.
WATCH: FCB at 90 - And the Grand Orchid goes to...
As a body of work, FCB's years of ads for Toyota would have to receive the Grand Orchid.
WATCH: FCB at 90 - Remember 'Yebo Gogo'?
FCB's client list reads like a Who's Who of top SA companies: Toyota, FNB, Absa, Cell C, Sasol, Engen, Tiger Brands, Eskom and Vodacom. Here are three of their standout ...
WATCH: FCB at 90 - Glug-glug
The sweet innocence of FCB's "Glug-glug" and "Baby in the pram" ads for Sasol make them some of SA's favourites.
WATCH: FCB at 90 - " Met Eish Ja, Met Eish"
One of the cleverest lines in SA advertising has to be "Met Eish", which surfaced in FCB's "Friendly Frikkie" ads for Distell's Klipdrift Brandy.
The Ford bakkie that dwarfs a Ranger
Brendan Seery braves the Jordanian desert to sample the F150, Explorer and other big Fords we don't get in SA.
Still waggling its butt at 77
This 1938 Plymouth feels surprisingly modern, but then it should, given the modifications made.
Golf TSI leads the hatch pack
As a product range, Volkswagen’s Golf 7 is arguably the best hatchback on the market. I know Audi fans will say their brand’s Sportback models, based on the same ...
Loeries judges were ‘techno-dazzled’
The Loeries scandal highlights how we suspend critical thinking when overwhelmed by hype, writes Brendan Seery.
Clever advertising... or reckless business?
The FNB campaign is simply a risky attack on the government – for whom two-thirds vote
In Sleaze-Land, lies rule
It’s a sad affair when a business weaves a web of deceit and duplicity
A pat on the bank for Steve
Apart from making a lot of money, FNB has also won many new clients… probably due to Steve.
Rhino defenders go to war
Anti-poaching forces to use state-of-the-art tools to stop the slaughter, writes Brendan Seery.
Rhino war hots up
The defenders of South Africa’s threatened rhinos have deployed new major weapons in the fight against poachers.
The past is another country for Germans
As monuments go, the floating chapel in the Störmthaler See, outside Leipzig in central Germany, is unusual not only because of its construction but because of what ...
A need for justice
The killers of Brett Goldin and his friend need further rehabilitation, not parole, says Goldin’s mother Denise
Justice not such a ‘moegoe’
Maybe I was tired from my Sunday morning run, or that it took just minutes to go through the screaming headlines of the Sunday Times.
Solid and satisfying, but no va-va-voom
The 1750 feels, subjectively anyway, not that quick. And it doesn’t seem to have the flair that its smaller-engined siblings have – to say nothing about the Mito, ...
The white blame game is tired
In assigning guilt to only one sector of the population – and it is very easy to do this, ask Adolf Hitler – commentators are helping to cover up the debate which ...
Hope springs eternal in Emzini
Maybe it’s because I’m white, born and raised in southern Africa. Maybe it’s because, in more than 25 years as journalist, many of those covering horrors across ...
Found: A De Hoop diamond
For years during the reign of the old Nat government, the De Hoop area in the southern Cape was a vast, unknown, and off-limits place – our equivalent of America’s ...
Found: a sparkling De Hoop diamond
There is a huge, 18km-long vlei inland from the sea at De Hoop, a delightful wetland which has international protected status under the Ramsar conventions.