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Things you should read

By 6000 | 6000 | March 28, 2012

AGAIN… not much time tonight (cue groans of happiness from the 6000 miles… reader collective). But, rather than a quota photo, some reading material for you, since there’s not ever so much here: Firstly, this, from the Independent, via my Dad: Meet the Geordie who led Benfica to three league titles When the great Eusebio [...]

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Blog Stuff

By 6000 | 6000 | July 4, 2011

“Blog Stuff” That was the subject of the email awaiting when I returned from a weekend “getting away from it all” – including cellphone signal – in the Southern Cape. After the trials and tribulations of the last week – only 1% of which concerned the blog crashing and burning and the other 99% of [...]

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Too close to home

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2011

Several emails and tweets asking why I am not blogging about the Luke Fairweather story. It’s a reasonable question. Thanks for asking. Occasionally  - just occasionally – there are topics which I would LOVE to blog about, but am unable to. These are generally specific and local issues which are linked somehow to what we [...]

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Jacques puts matters straight

By 6000 | 6000 | November 12, 2010

I’m only an occasional reader of the Mail & Guardian, but when I do give myself the opportunity and can find the time, it’s generally an interesting read. Last week I was rather shocked and disappointed by Andile Mngxitama’s column “The face of white supremacy” in which the writer accused Gareth Cliff of being racist [...]

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Morne Harmse – sentence is passed

By 6000 | 6000 | September 14, 2009

And the recriminations can now begin. Morne Harmse, the schoolboy with the masks and the Samurai sword who killed a fellow pupil at his Krugersdorp School last year, was this week sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison. And of course, there are those who think this is too lenient and those who think it [...]

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