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The end is nigh

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In the 1970s when I lived in London I would walk past an elderly man who stood near Charing Cross station with a perpetually worried

Dear Woke People

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I don’t usually play requests, but when 805 people clamour for the same song, what is a guy to do? It all started last week

A week of apologies

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I’ve often wondered who decides what day should be allocated to what fashionable cause. Is there, for example, a secret committee who meet and decide

Slimming down Eskom

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I knew of a company once where some of the head honchos became a bit bored doing the jobs they were handsomely paid to do.

A law-abiding citizen? Really?

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I wasn’t too sure whether to laugh or cry this past week when the ANC leapt to the defence of serial absentee accused Jacob Zuma,

The oncoming train

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The first volume of my Sunday Times ‘Out to Lunch’ columns came out in 2002. Not surprisingly the book was titled ‘Out to Lunch’ (its

Gay vs God

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This week was ‘lesbian outrage’ week both on social media and, indeed, in the mainstream press. Various news sources chose the story of how a

Nommer, asseblief

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Last Friday week we had another bout of load-shedding between 6pm and 8pm. The official period of load shedding in our area is shown as

The gambler’s dilemma

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I’m not a regular visitor to casinos. However, like many South Africans no doubt, I have been lured at some time in the past to

Woke meerkat manners

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Years ago, I spent a couple of days in Oudtshoorn during a touring holiday. If you like ostriches or are in the market for feather