Monthly Archives: January 2009

Oudekraal statue mystery

By 6000 | 6000 | January 8, 2009

A statue has appeared on the rocks on Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard and the local newspaper and residents are getting unduly excited about it. Statue Alien. Tribute. Mime artist. Religious statement. Mummy. A gift from God. These are just some of the suggestions offered by baffled onlookers as to what could be gracing rocks beyond Camps [...]

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Wakefield’s Shameful Legacy

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2009

A new study, ironically published in The Lancet, raises serious doubts that the goal of elimination of measles in Europe by 2010 can be attained. The reason for this re-emergence of a disease which was completely under control 15 years ago is the “shoddy, litigation- and profit-driven pseudoscience” of Andrew Wakefield, whose now discredited study published [...]

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More sky stuff

By 6000 | 6000 | January 3, 2009

A few weeks ago, I gave you a lovely picture of the sunset taken from my front garden. Just one month later, I found myself pointing my camera skyward once again: Clouds With just a touch of imagination (or a quart of Milk Stout), it could be a dove of peace, bringing hope and love for the [...]

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It’s all over

By 6000 | 6000 | January 2, 2009

It’s obvious that the holiday season is coming to an end, as the malls are filled with dishevelled whities wearing poorly-ironed clothes, desperate for the return of Mabel, their domestic, who spent the festive period back with her family in the Eastern Cape. They’re even willing to overlook the embarrassment of that phone call they made two weeks into her [...]

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