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Ashley Madison and the culture of shame and gossip

Rod MacKenzie by Rod MacKenzie 24 August 201527 August 2015

I confess I hadn’t even heard of Ashley Madison until the other day when the hack into their data base “went viral” as the saying goes. Oooh, how the human race loves to wallow in scandal. Oh to gossip and swim about in who is having an affair, or who has been caught out for […]

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Trying to describe South Africa without ‘overkill’

Rod MacKenzie by Rod MacKenzie 11 May 201414 May 2014

The novel I am writing has its opening scene in Cape Town on the day Mandela was released from prison. This manuscript is my project for the masters degree in creative writing programme at Auckland University in New Zealand. My protagonist, Ruth, is a young South African, and Chinese in appearance. She does not know, among […]

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