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Tori Amos in Cape Town, Joburg – November 2011

By 6000 | 6000 | September 5, 2011

Much excitement last night as someone (@frantaljaard?) while (presumably) searching “Tori Amos” and “Concert” and “South Africa” and “November” on Google, discovered that Tori Amos is due to perform some concerts in South Africa in November as part of her Night Of Hunters tour. Isn’t Google amazing? The dates currently held are Saturday and Sunday 12th & [...]

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Aciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!

By 6000 | 6000 | October 5, 2010

Hysterical British Tabloid Reporting (HBTR) returns to South Africa, a few months after comprehensively failing to derail the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This from Sky News: This isn’t anything new. These stories hit the SA newspapers months ago. But the Chernobyl link is nice – it’s obvious that they’ve had to think about things for [...]

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Accident at OR Tambo leaves World Cup flights in jeopardy

By 6000 | 6000 | May 26, 2010

Bad news incoming from our obviously disgruntled 6000 miles… correspondent in Jo’burg: Damnit. Finally, it stops bloody raining and now it’s freezing cold. And not only am I still stuck in this godforsaken hole with its ugly mine dumps, extremely thin air and icy mornings, but now I have to file a report on an accident at the airport here which [...]

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Did the earth move for you in 2005?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 22, 2010

The chatter in Gauteng is (possibly) all about last night’s Gauteng earthquake/tremor which, it turns out, wasn’t in Gauteng at all. It measured 2.8 on the Richter scale and twitter was instantly ablaze with the thought that the Daily Star’s prophecy might actually have come true, although of course a quick look at this page [...]

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Jo’burg Meningitis Scare – Get a grip!

By 6000 | 6000 | March 10, 2009

“Scare” is exactly the right word. The Times newspaper is hugely critical of the Gauteng Health Department and the National Government today: DESPITE fears that four children have died from meningitis in the past three weeks, the government says there is no need to panic. And it does not think these deaths and seven others last year [...]

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