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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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Sensationalist reporting is back!

By 6000 | 6000 | May 14, 2008

Today’s Cape Times runs a front page story on the a problem which put the Table Mountain Cableway out of action for a whole 35 (thirty-five) minutes yesterday afternoon. Woo. [link] Yet, despite the fact that there were a total of no injuries, no snapped cables, no plunging tourists, merely a blown fuse, we get 1000 words [...]

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Can you write me off too, please?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 17, 2008

Great news! (if you’re Cuban, that is.) According to this morning’s Cape Times, the South African government has written off a 12-year-old debt owed to it by Cuba for export insurance relating to diesel engines, pesticides, Joost van der Westhuizen promotional mechandise and biltong.   Very generous. Very, very generous in fact, when you hear that the debt [...]

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