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Paddi Clay
Paddi Clay spent 40 years in journalism, as a reporter and consultant, manager, editor and trainer in radio, print and online. She was a correspondent for foreign networks during the 80s and 90s and, more recently, a judge on the Alan Paton Book Awards. She has an MA in Digital Journalism Leadership and received the Vodacom National Columnist award in 2007. Now retired she feels she has earned the right to indulge in her hobbies of politics, history, the arts, popular culture and good food. She values curiosity, humour, and freedom of speech, opinion and choice.
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Reading Mania
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jul 21, 2024
Returning to normality, or at least the world beyond social media and politics after sustained immersion, is not proving easy. It’s my fault. I made
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Why I joined a party and volunteered my services in this election
- By Paddi Clay
- . May 26, 2024
I have become a widget in the mighty machine that is a party in full campaign mode. The election that’s upon us is the most
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Media choices, bias, and propaganda
- By Paddi Clay
- . Apr 21, 2024
Two minor storms in the local media teacup drew my attention this week and prompt some comment. The Daily Maverick online publication didn’t publish and
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Sometimes you have to laugh. Even if these are seriously crucial elections
- By Paddi Clay
- . Mar 24, 2024
I received a WhatsApp message from a usually reliable source this week which was an African National Congress graphic notice of a Mini-Rally on 22
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How to survive the hustings for our National Election, or The Ship of Fools…
- By Paddi Clay
- . Feb 25, 2024
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Or, in the variant, ‘the country.’ It’s a familiar
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A cautious approach to journalism in the age of Gaza-Israeli conflict
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jan 28, 2024
A new assault is under way in the war of words that is as fierce as the air and ground war between Gaza and Israel
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The Day Following
- By Paddi Clay
- . Dec 25, 2023
In acknowledgement of the traditional ‘silly season’, inspired by the rereading of a favourite ‘Christmas’ poem by TS Eliot and a recent presentation by former
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The ANC’s concerns for South Africans – a *bitterer gelechte
- By Paddi Clay
- . Nov 29, 2023
Recently the ANC government’s romantic notion of itself as a liberation group, fighting for freedom for the people against an implacable, more powerful foe (an
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Wars of Words
- By Paddi Clay
- . Oct 22, 2023
One of the many vociferous little wars of words fought on the social medium known as X in the aftermath of the atrocious attack by
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The Family Business
- By Paddi Clay
- . Sep 25, 2023
President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s own Inaction Man, has been striding the world of late, doing what he does best. Uttering platitudes on women empowerment,