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By now a lot of the dust has settled around the battle which waged for roughly 13 hours a few kilometres outside Bangui at checkpoint PK12. There is a lot of finger-pointing and many expectant questions of just why the hell we were there in the first place. Before larger allegations of uranium and oil deals emerge between South...
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Rape in South Africa is unacceptably high. Abominably so.
Not that there would ever be a level of rape that could be considered acceptable – ours is just so fantastically brutal as to occupy an entirely different and altogether elevated strata of the savage things that we are capable of doing to one another. But this is not a...
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If Lonmin hadn't happened today, it would have happened next month. Or a year from now.
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Most South Africans grow up without an innate sense of malice. The genuine, intentional urge to do harm to things and people is not normally there. At least, not in my experience with virtually anyone I have interacted with. So why then do so many of us end up doing so much wrong? We grow up learning not to litter, because it will...
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Youth Day 2012 in South Africa was thoroughly hijacked by the education activists. June 16th was about more than education access. Sure, education was, and still is, an important issue but the contribution of youth to the liberation of South Africa had to do with a whole lot more than just schools – it had to do with the bigger...
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