ISN'T Guluva glad he is not trapped in the nominative determinism conundrum, because if he were he would have made Johannesburg Prison his second home and not writing a newspaper column like he is doing now?
Doctor Khumalo would have been a medical doctor and not the successful former footballer, coach and TV soccer analyst that he is today.
Fifa local organising committee spokesperson Rich Mkhondo would have been a very rich man.
On the other hand, former Moroka Swallows and Bafana Bafana star Naughty Mokoena would not be languishing in the soccer wilderness today had he not been naughty during the 1998 Fifa World Cup finals in France.
Guluva was reminded of nominative determinism - an ancient phenomenon that somehow connects your name, surname or nickname to your profession - while listening to Talk Radio 702's motoring show, A Word on Cars, last Friday night.
Increasingly popular among motoring enthusiasts, the show is co-hosted by, wait for it, Allan Ford and Sagie Moodley, two Johannesburg motor mechanics.
Guluva is not certain whether British-born Allan Ford has motor car inventor Henry Ford's blood flowing in his veins, but he knows that the man had been dabbling in cars and things mechanical since he was a young man growing up in the UK.
Interestingly, during the show on Friday anchor Leigh Bennie and Moodley - Ford was away - introduced a guest to bring listeners up to speed with industry trends. The guest, believe it or not, was BMW's technical manager Rob Gearing.
A few years ago Guluva met a man called Dean, who was a dean at the University of Columbia in the US. He also had the honour of rubbing shoulders with Peter Bacon, a senior executive at Sun International Hotels.
Only recently he got to read that the chef at the Cradle of Humankind's restaurant - the scene of a wedding that ended in tragedy when one of the guests was killed - is, coincidentally, Adriaan Cook.
Home alone for Mhlambi
Guluva feels very sorry for Simphiwe Mhlambi, one of Mzansi's most gifted photographers.
Mhlambi, an old acquaintance of Guluva's, has become a thoroughly aggrieved fellow of late. The source of his grief is that his wife, highly acclaimed diva Judith Sephuma, will be sharing the stage with her ex, jazz maestro Selaelo Selota, at the Sun City Superbowl this weekend.
The jealous ace lensman can't bear the thought of seeing the former lovers - the two musicians have together brought three children into this world - performing suggestively on stage, so he has decided to give the show a miss.
All Guluva can advise Mhlambi under the circumstances is to chill.
He should be consoled by the fact that the spouses of many soap opera actors and actresses have seen far worse.
ONSIDE: The Democratic Alliance's KwaZulu-Natal provincial director, John Steenhuizen, resigned after his affair with a colleague, a married woman, burst into the open. Is there a lesson here to be learnt by other politicians?
OFFSIDE: Did the state trip that Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande wanted to undertake to Cuba in fact have something to do with SACP business? The sooner the minister, who also moonlights as SACP general secretary, sheds light on this the better.
- Email Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Connecting names with professions
ISN'T Guluva glad he is not trapped in the nominative determinism conundrum, because if he were he would have made Johannesburg Prison his second home and not writing a newspaper column like he is doing now?
Doctor Khumalo would have been a medical doctor and not the successful former footballer, coach and TV soccer analyst that he is today.
Fifa local organising committee spokesperson Rich Mkhondo would have been a very rich man.
On the other hand, former Moroka Swallows and Bafana Bafana star Naughty Mokoena would not be languishing in the soccer wilderness today had he not been naughty during the 1998 Fifa World Cup finals in France.
Guluva was reminded of nominative determinism - an ancient phenomenon that somehow connects your name, surname or nickname to your profession - while listening to Talk Radio 702's motoring show, A Word on Cars, last Friday night.
Increasingly popular among motoring enthusiasts, the show is co-hosted by, wait for it, Allan Ford and Sagie Moodley, two Johannesburg motor mechanics.
Guluva is not certain whether British-born Allan Ford has motor car inventor Henry Ford's blood flowing in his veins, but he knows that the man had been dabbling in cars and things mechanical since he was a young man growing up in the UK.
Interestingly, during the show on Friday anchor Leigh Bennie and Moodley - Ford was away - introduced a guest to bring listeners up to speed with industry trends. The guest, believe it or not, was BMW's technical manager Rob Gearing.
A few years ago Guluva met a man called Dean, who was a dean at the University of Columbia in the US. He also had the honour of rubbing shoulders with Peter Bacon, a senior executive at Sun International Hotels.
Only recently he got to read that the chef at the Cradle of Humankind's restaurant - the scene of a wedding that ended in tragedy when one of the guests was killed - is, coincidentally, Adriaan Cook.
Home alone for Mhlambi
Guluva feels very sorry for Simphiwe Mhlambi, one of Mzansi's most gifted photographers.
Mhlambi, an old acquaintance of Guluva's, has become a thoroughly aggrieved fellow of late. The source of his grief is that his wife, highly acclaimed diva Judith Sephuma, will be sharing the stage with her ex, jazz maestro Selaelo Selota, at the Sun City Superbowl this weekend.
The jealous ace lensman can't bear the thought of seeing the former lovers - the two musicians have together brought three children into this world - performing suggestively on stage, so he has decided to give the show a miss.
All Guluva can advise Mhlambi under the circumstances is to chill.
He should be consoled by the fact that the spouses of many soap opera actors and actresses have seen far worse.
ONSIDE: The Democratic Alliance's KwaZulu-Natal provincial director, John Steenhuizen, resigned after his affair with a colleague, a married woman, burst into the open. Is there a lesson here to be learnt by other politicians?
OFFSIDE: Did the state trip that Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande wanted to undertake to Cuba in fact have something to do with SACP business? The sooner the minister, who also moonlights as SACP general secretary, sheds light on this the better.
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