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Cruising with J9: The inconvenience of OR Tambo

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With the recent upgrades many airports around the country have improved – except for the parking at the biggest one of them all: OR Tambo.

 
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Some more, please...

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Being nosy is a boon. That, and being greedy. Well, they are if you love food and, consequently, cooking. I am both and you could add obsessed – with an emphasis on never missing a meal.

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Volunteers are not scabs

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Cosatu boss Zwelinzima Vavi is very, very wrong when he suggests that those South Africans who have ­volunteered to keep our public hospitals going are scabs.

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Apology to the ANC and Phosa

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Two weeks ago, the Press Ombudsman found City Press guilty of various breaches of the Press Code in an article published on the front page on August 16 2009, headed “Phosa tries to muzzle City Press”. City Press hereby apologises to the ANC and Dr Mathews Phosa for the breaches of the Press Code and for possible harm caused to them.

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Zuma Inc (also) didn’t struggle to be poor

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In 2006, Telkom sold a massive stake to the Elephant ­Consortium.

 
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Zuma is faced with Hobson’s choice

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This will go down as the week in which President Jacob Zuma’s indecisive style of leadership came back to bite him ... hard.

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Our pledge to pull up our socks

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Media freedom is burnished and guaranteed both by external context and internal practice.

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Good comes from all difficulties, even tragedy

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Death is a gift, writes Nancy Bulla from the US after her daughter’s fatal riding accident in South Africa.

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How to make Zumafesto a reality

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Talent. As soon as government trains talent, it loses the cream of the crop. Except for those most committed to a life of public service – teachers, nurses, doctors, police officers, prison and municipal workers make a bee-line for the private sector.

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Secret. Top Secret. Highly Confidential.

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A number of us depend on the government to provide good schools, transport, social grants, hospital services and so on.

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Make a kebaab of Al-Shabaab

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To drive through Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, is to experience a society in which different religions co-exist peaceably. The hilly city is dotted with mosques and churches. While the country is overwhelmingly Christian with a 13% Muslim population, the two dominant religions have lived side by side.

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Our nation now redefines the art of the possible

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As wonderful as it has been to play host to the globe, the World Cup has taught us more about how we see ourselves than about how the rest of the world sees us.

 

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We did it and can do much more

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Now, a World Cup later and 16 years after freedom, we are surprised at our own gorgeousness reflected back to us by a world that has declared South Africa to be über-cool. Surprised that we have pulled off a Cup that was streamlined and happy, one that put fans at the centre and ubuntu at its heart.

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Tragically, it’s finish and klaar for Selebi

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Former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi walked down the court’s stairs after his conviction on corruption charges on Friday. It was a tragic image that should make all of us cry.

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