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Coalitions, councillors, and the electorate

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‘Coalition country’ looks pretty uninspiring currently. A few announcements of improved systems, a round or two of pothole repairs, much ambitious, even grandiose planning. Someone

Perhaps it’s time to think deeply again

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What fun and excitement we denizens of Twitter have been having with the richest man in the world buying the social media platform that many

Minority Report 

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Journalism training usually includes the injunction to not be afraid to ask for clarification when you are interviewing someone. If you as a reporter or

Not a nice war

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I was in the middle of trying to unsubscribe to a wellness – or as they say in old parlance, a health and beauty –

Listening to the ‘lower class’

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In Kathu in the Northern Cape on Tuesday last week, residents suffering from poverty, despondency  and the debilitating scourge of helpless dependency, lined up to

Asteroids and Anxiety

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Just when it appears we can perhaps breathe a little easier, literally, with the Covid-19 virus morphing into a less severe or lung-damaging, although still

The Big Job

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As I passed through Rosebank, Johannesburg last week heading for my optician, I noticed a new shop:, Kentucky Town. It was a KFC pop up

A luta continua

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The people have spoken – or, to be more accurate, 12 million of the 40 million or so South Africans eligible to vote have spoken.

All along the watchtower

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Personally, I had planned to have a long-overdue pedicure, to finish John Boyne’s latest novel The Echo Chamber (a sharp and enjoyable comedy of manners

Oh the humanity (12th September 2021)

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“This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. And oh, it’s…burning, oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky. It’s a terrific crash,