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Duncan White gets it right

I don’t often reproduce other people’s work in full on here, but after I wrote this, it was nice to see that I’m not the only person feeling that way. Here’s Duncan White in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph It is wrong to equate Angola with South Africa after Togo attack It was grimly predictable. No [...]

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Some perspective, please

After the dreadful attack on the Togolese national football team, questions have been raised about the World Cup tournament in South Africa later this year. But why?  After all, France 1998 went ahead despite the Kosovo conflict, which was occuring on the same continent. As Danny Jordaan has pointed out, South Africa 2010 has nothing to [...]

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