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We ignore the deadliest pollution

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Six-hundred-and-eighty people might die from the air pollution from Kusile coal power station while it runs for a year or more without its anti-pollution equipment.

All you need is hate 

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“Gas the Jews!” I think this chant will remain clearly in my mind for the rest of my life when other details of the horrible

Cecil John Rhodes would have loved the new education bill

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Cecil John Rhodes would have loved the ANC’s Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA), 2022. Rhodes was the most arrogant and ambitious of all the

Oppenheimer, Putin, and the South African bomb

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After watching the film Oppenheimer last week, I could not help brooding about the atomic bomb then and now. What would have happened if the

The Cape of Storms, and climate change

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No less than 828mm of rain fell on East London in a few days. Twelve people were killed in the floods. Many houses were destroyed.

The technological marvel on my wrist

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On my left wrist is a technological wonder and an economic oddity. It is spectacular proof that you can have very rapid development while enormously

The man who stopped Grand Apartheid

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Two events sounded the death knell of apartheid. The first was the refusal of Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi to accept “independence” for the KwaZulu Bantustan

Two worlds of property in Johannesburg

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There are two different property problems in Johannesburg. Some people just cannot sell their houses. Others just cannot find accommodation. The first group is small

We are led by a charming, treacherous weakling

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The latest people to be betrayed by Cyril Ramaphosa are the people of Zimbabwe. After yet another blatantly crooked election there, so crooked in fact

Nuclear is best, but stop the squabbling at Koeberg

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There has been a series of silly problems and silly squabbles at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station over the last few years. Things will come