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The 6000 miles… James Blunt review

By 6000 | 6000 | May 30, 2008

So we went, we saw, we listened and it actually wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I had been fearing. And I’d been fearing a lot. James Blunt came onto the stage a distinctly Capetonian 25 minutes late, to what I can only really term as “polite applause”, looking like a slightly rougher, scruffier version of my [...]

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Serves you right

By 6000 | 6000 | May 29, 2008

Fresh from yesterday’s Cape Times and it’s sister paper, Pretoria News: An agency that sold tickets for a Celine Dion concert in March and a cancelled Josh Groban concert in April has been placed under final liquidation. An application for the liquidation of Ticket Connection (Pty) was yesterday brought before Judge P Burton-Fourie by the agency [...]

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Gutted

By 6000 | 6000 | May 27, 2008

Tuesday: Shower. Breakfast. Traffic. Work. Tea Break. Such is the life of a lab rat. But with Tuesday tea break comes Ben Trovato’s column in the Cape Times. Today, I open the paper even more eagerly. How will someone with such obvious compassion for those around him and an incomparable understanding of South African cultures handle the recent xenophobic problems? [...]

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Luister Engelsman…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 26, 2008

… as jy dit nie hier laaik nie, hoekom gaan jy nie maar terug Engeland toe nie?* Why do people always ask me that? So asked a commenter on one of my bosparra.com posts (scroll down to comments – his is the very first).  Normally, I wouldn’t make a big deal out of something said over there. [...]

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word

By 6000 | 6000 | May 24, 2008

Exactly what are our politicians up to while the well-documented violence against foreign nationals spreads to each and every corner of the country? President Thabo Mbeki has been widely criticised for his lack of prompt action when the attacks started in Alexandra last week (or earlier, according to some sources). And rightly so, I would [...]

6 Comments | Tagged , , , | Posted in in the news, politics, this is south africa
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