Tobias Wiethoff
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/ 13 April 2004

Online chatrooms offer motorists new solutions

DuffyDuc has a problem with his Rover 75 with the heating system switching itself on as it pleases. The dealer couldn’t find the fault until DuffyDuc consults a chat room on the Internet. No longer can a dealer claim that the problem is completely untypical and has ”never happened before” therefore not falling under the guarantee.

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/ 16 December 2003

‘Everybody is suspicious in South Africa’

Thousands of penguins on the rocky shores of Robben Island let the visitor for a moment forget that the island is a symbol of all the horrors of apartheid and as renowned as Alcatraz in the bay of San Francisco. Tourists can take a ferry from Cape Town to Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela and the elite of the anti-apartheid struggle were incarcerated.