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Prison knocks at Selebi’s door

After a marathon trial, after suspicious political inventions and interventions, after the commendable investigative and prosecutorial work of members of the now disbanded special unit known as Scorpions, prison beckons for former South African police commissioner and former head of Interpol, Sello Jacob Selebi, known simply as Jackie Selebi. For some it’s hallelujah. For others […]

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I could die soon…

There is no strange car with tinted windows tailing my red Toyota. No tall and burly mafioso tracking my movements. My telephone has not been bugged (I hope). None of my three dogs have been slain and hung by my gate. No one, save my few friends and small family, know who I am and […]

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Letter to Madiba

I jumped up and down, vigorously waving my arms and flashing my biggest smile towards you when you appeared briefly at Soccer City with Mamana Graça at the final World Cup game between Spain and the Netherlands. Nearly a hundred thousand people at the stadium and millions of others all over the world were doing […]

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Africa, don’t settle for WC crumbs

There is a Bible story about a fearless, stubborn, “non-citizen” outsider-woman who demands the intervention of Jesus in the “small matter” of her child’s sickness. When Jesus rejects her request, she becomes so insistent that a heated debate ensues. During the debate she (her like and kind) are likened to “dogs” that do not have […]

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An ode to the vuvuzela

Know the Tutu story? Or is it Kenyatta who first told it? When the white man came to Africa, Africans had the land and the white man had the Bible. The white man said “let us pray” and after the prayer the Africans had the bible and the white man had the land. Now — […]