Those who warn of an international Jewish conspiracy or imminent Armageddon if women won’t dress modestly, struggle to get published in credible newspapers. Competition for space is fierce and the local loony claiming abduction and impregnation by randy extra-terrestrials is only rarely indulged.
William Saunderson-Meyer
This Jaundiced Eye column appears in Weekend Argus, The Citizen, and Independent on Saturday. WSM is also a book reviewer for the Sunday Times and Business Day. Follow @TheJaundicedEye.
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Shiny bottle-top awards for 2009
The African President of the Year award is a publicity gimmick and this first-time award has as much credibility as one of the shiny bottle tops that Idi Amin used to wear on his chest.
Posted inBusiness
If kids can grasp it, why can’t bankers?
There is a difference between what is legal and what is right. Parents work hard on getting their kids to understand this and fortunately for society, they mostly succeed. Big business doesn’t get it, though. For most corporates what is legal is moral, finish en klaar. In South Africa entire industries were gleefully built around […]