Steve Waugh was noted back in the day to have called India the “the final frontier”. A country vast in size and unique in character, has always proven to be a difficult place to tour. For the Australians, it was a place that had resisted their efforts for 32 years before that epic series of […]
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Lives of the wretched and denied
The locals allowed the hapless refugees to return but they had to buy back their looted possessions as part of their ‘reintegration’.
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Assange’s just another Zulu on the stoop
Julian Assange may well be a real life James Bond. His hair certainly fits the part, and his swagger is telling of a man with a penchant for the virtuously shaken and virulently stirred could ever dare. But it’s his decidedly Jacob Zuma air that is most striking. Yes, you read right. Take away the […]
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What happens on day 17
Today marks the end of the 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children. It is also International Human Rights Day commemorating the day that the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is also … a Friday. Tomorrow will be a Saturday and then comes Sunday and then comes […]
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Reflections on nearly dying the other day
“We really need you to fart,” the cute nurse said sternly as I lay on my hospital bed, feeling the hookah of the morphine drip silently bubbling through me after I pushed a button which punched into me the next tot of that wonderful elixir. I stared at her mournfully, unable to perform the gassy […]
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Maybe Malema was right about raped women
Remember when Julius said that a woman who stays for breakfast and asks for taxi fare obviously enjoyed herself? Basically implying that the girl who accused Zuma of rape was a lying slut. Do you remember that? Do you remember how we all got angry with him? And said that in a country where women […]
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Do you want fries with your PhD?
The BA is not a way to find a man. It’s not a route to eternal poverty. And it’s not (necessarily) a soft option for students who can’t crack science or engineering. So argues the always provocative Professor Jonathan Jansen, who says that a BA is not useless degree. Jansen quotes the pizza joke (“at […]
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You’re not man enough!
By Lemos Magule* with Fed Katerere My name is Lemos Magule and I am a 50-year-old man living in Chimoio, Mozambique’s fourth largest city. For the past seven years I have been living as a bachelor after two failed relationships. My first wife, Lucia* and I married under customary law when I was 20 years […]
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Gender coverage: Thought Leader leads the pack
Thought Leader was recently named as the forum where “most analytic discussion of sexual violence” was taking place by the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, which recently conducted a study on the reporting of sexual violence in South Africa. Preliminary findings of the report were released in November to coincide with the 16 days of activism, […]
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The Assange case: What makes it rape-rape?
If you’re on Twitter you’ve seen all the questions about the rape allegations against Julian Assange. People are asking — is what he did rape-rape? Conspiracy theorists scream that it is extremely convenient that these charges came up now, and others are saying that it’s not rape because all he did was lie about using […]
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Enough with the media’s half-baked legal analysis
By Malose S Monene The editor, The intellectual slum to which we are daily subjected by our mainstream media has really reached alarming proportions. Nowhere is it more evident than in the way criminal court matters vis-a-vis NPA operations have been reported and commented on. Half truths, lies and gallant displays of acute ignorance about […]