Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Municipal Elections - Reflecting an ANC Identity Crisis?

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TO foreigners we must sometimes appear to be a strange nation. Warm and hospitable one day, we are capable of unspeakable violence against e...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Befitting Democracy

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WHAT could our 2011 municipal elections have to do with the North African political earthquake, or, recent events in places such as Cote d’I...
Monday, May 16, 2011

The Halal Industry: a Call for Common Sense

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THE other day I wrote an article about the halalisation of our consumer space by Halal bodies. They were more concerned, I suggested, in mak...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Fisk: Bin Laden was a "Has Been"

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ROBERT FISK, the Beirut-based correspondent for The Independent , knows his way around the geopolitics of the Middle East better than most. ...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Bin Laden's Death: Surprise and Cynicism

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s announcement that the US’s most-maligned figure, Usama bin Laden, had been killed in a covert operation 50 kms nort...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Halal Certification, the Industry of Doubt

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THE “Halalisation” of our consumer space continues unabated. In previous articles on this topic I’ve discussed Halal toothpicks and Halal wa...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Arab Uprisings: The Clash of Civilisation Myth Falls

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THE grand myth of the “Clash of Civilisations”, the clarion call of neo-cons and fundamentalists everywhere, has fallen. It fell during the ...
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