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Reinfection protection vs vaccine protection

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Professors at internationally respected institutions mislead on vaccines versus reinfection protection. I was scheduled for a vaccination on Tuesday, 10 August. For someone my age,

Election Postponement Irrational

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Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke issued a non-binding report to the Independent Electoral Commission calling for municipal elections to be postponed from October this

Racism is NOT the problem vs Jacob Zuma

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Former president Jacob Zuma has been given a fifteen-month jail sentence for contempt of court. Around the country, around the world, headlines scream delight. But

Non-racialism, the choice of a supermajority of South Africans

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Earlier in June, President Cyril Ramaphosa called for South Africa to review BEE. Proponents of race-based policy have always had two basic arguments. Both are

Covid-19: Wuhan and the lab-leak hypothesis

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For much of the past year anyone who considered the possibility that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, originated in a Chinese lab was accused

Breaking News: Piet Retief accused granted bail

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Magistrate Simon Fankomo has granted bail of R10 000 each to the five men accused of killing Amos and Zenzele Coka on Pampoenkraal farm in the

Coka brothers would be alive if police had responded sooner – investigating officer

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Amos and Zenzele Coka, both of whom were shot dead on a farm in the Mkhondo district on 9 April, would be alive today if

Breaking news: Footage of Mkhondo confrontation contradicts witnesses – defence team

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Security camera footage depicting events leading up to the deaths of Amos and Zenzele Coka on 9 April materially contradicts witness testimony against the four

Mkhondo hearing: defence ‘flabbergasted’ at apparent prompting of investigating officer’s evidence

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The defence team in the Piet Retief bail hearing expressed an alarmed objection to magistrate Simon Fankomo when they noticed that investigating officer Warrant Officer

Fear and loathing in Mkhondo: man stabbed, four others – including IRR journalist – attacked

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Covering the murder trial in Piet Retief turned into a strange daydream shot through with hatred, incompetence, and old-fashioned gullibility. There are two versions of