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Was it really better under Apartheid?

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When you want to show people how angry you are with an existing regime, the best method is to say, ‘It was better under …

The ancient quest for intoxication

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‘Everybody Must Get Stoned.’ So wrote the 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, Mr Robert Zimmerman (professional name: Bob Dylan). It would be more accurate

Lockdown kills poor black people

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Dear President Ramaphosa, ‘Please could you stop killing poor black people? Please could you end lockdown and allow them to return to work, so they

The health threat to fat politicians

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South African politicians are in danger from an epidemic far worse than Covid-19. Just looking at them, I can see their lives are threatened. The

Let’s be nice to the virus

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The Coronavirus is a delicate little organism, menaced by mortal peril on all sides. It cannot support an independent existence. It can only survive in

Michael Moore exposes the renewable-energy scam

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There has been a new and surprising turn in the great environmental debate. A dramatic but accurate attack on ‘renewable’ energy (here meaning wind, solar

The solution for Covid-19

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The solution for Covid-19 is simple, logical and obvious. I blame my stupidity rather than my lack of medical qualifications for not having seen it

Covid-19 and Chris Hani – some lives don’t matter

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‘One man with a rifle who can change the course of history.’ This was the blurb for ‘The Day of the Jackal’, Frederick Forsyth’s marvellous

Comparing two scares: climate change & Covid-19

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The fundamental difference between the two great scares of today, Covid-19 and climate alarm, is that the former is real and based on hard science

Normal disease, abnormal response

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‘I have never experienced anything like it in all my life! This is unprecedented!’ So speak commentators in South Africa and around the world on