The justice department, when it comes to matters of the Bearded Folk, has the patience of Job.
A word like hotnot says more about who utters it than about who is on the receiving end.Offensive? Maybe. Illegal? Ridiculous.
”Yes, but is it a 16-valve?” Back in the day this phrase taught me all there was to know about whether a guy stood a chance.
The true spirit of Islam may just be found in Timbuktu, the town of sand, mystics, big navels and the Ahmed Baba Institute Museum.
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/ 21 January 2009
How many more Palestinians have to die before their suffering becomes a cause célèbre?
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/ 8 December 2008
The gender commission is just a government body stacked with bureaucrats whose interests leave little room for the ‘ordinary woman’.
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/ 6 February 2008
It was a fine rebuff delivered in polite but unmistakably clipped tones. “I don’t do the press. Sorry.” And with that clincher, the well-published Wits University political scientist, Shireen Hassim, turned on her heels to return to her circle of fellow intellectuals to enjoy the last few minutes of her tea break.
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/ 29 January 2008
I guess some would call it apartheid envy. Either that, or liberal guilt associated with having had a sheltered upbringing, no television at home, or just having been too young. But there are a good few among us positively longing for a good old-fashioned riot in the streets, writes Khadija Bradlow.
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/ 18 January 2008
Call it fatalism, resignation or sheer naivety, but Osman Adam (46) says he doesn’t waste much time pondering over what he will do when armed thugs break down his door. A highly probable eventuality, considering that just two weeks ago the previous owner of the store he now manages in Kroondal, died in a pool of blood in the doorway in which he now stands.
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/ 14 January 2008
Pity those who think there’s no fun to be had as South Africa enters what could be the Year of the Banana. With the former second-in-charge of the country in the pay of a convicted shyster, the chief of police hanging with criminals instead of arresting them and a long list of other foibles by those tasked with our rule, there could be little to laugh about.