We all have to shop to purchase the things we need to survive. Yesterday was an absolute scorcher of a day in Cape Town, and rather than spend my day relaxing I ended up going to the post-Christmas wasteland of shops to pick up a few things for New Year’s Eve, before the madness that […]
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A very prominent political leader from Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated by a suicide bomber yesterday. As the web swirls with reports of her murder, and the myriad of consequences it has had, and will continue to have on that country in the coming months as it attempts to stumble away from fundamentalist anarchy, we […]
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The modern bestseller, The God Delusion, has taken hold of the popular imagination in recent months and has captured the zeitgeist in a way in which would make its author, Richard Dawkins, very proud indeed. In a world where religion as an excuse (or cause as Dawkin’s would argue) for bigotry, hatred and violence appears to […]
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I just got this week’s Time Europe, and it focused on Top 10 lists.
Top 10 lists are beautiful because they allow for a flagrant and completely unjustified judgement on what ever is being assessed. And since I’m also reading Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity at the moment, the bastion of list-making fiction that it is, I […]
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Living in Cape Town, it makes sense to embrace the idleness that the nation slides into between Christmas and New Year’s day, because that is a time when massive amounts of money are spent in our fair city (as well as for several weeks on either side of this time period as well).
The only problem […]
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Recently a friend of mine was caught in a terrible lie, or rather a collection of lies maintained over a long time period which eventually caught up to him.
The exact nature of the lies isn’t relevant, but serves as a starting point for my thoughts on the cause of lies. Why do we as human […]
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With the world in the midst of a global credit crunch, and suburbs across the western world littered with “For Sale” signs outside houses that can’t be afforded anymore, there is one more property which is soon to have its own “For Sale” sign nailed into the lawn, but sadly for South Africa the mortgage […]
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South Africa is in the grip of a succession battle for the presidency of ANC, and therefore de facto the presidency of the country. The front-runner is Jacob Zuma, a populist leader with grave questions regarding his integrity and ability to govern a nation such as South Africa. His rival is the incumbent president, Thabo […]
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