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/ 8 March 2003

The Earth trembles

There’s an old saying that goes: "When elephants fight, the grass suffers". Now that might be true in many walks of life, but in the newspaper world, Lemmer has found, when elephants fight the grass tends to giggle

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/ 7 August 2002

Cultural blowhards

The government’s websites are a source of constant amusement to the manne at the Dorsbult, and a rich source for material for this column. But sometimes the gems are buried. Take a tender announcement from the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology last week.

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/ 1 January 2002

Lock up your fridges

THE proposed renaming of Northern Province as Limpopo seems to have got the rightwingers of the verrenoord very hot under the collar. When Oom Krisjan received his copy of the Zoutpansberger of February 8, he was surprised to see the extent of the problem facing whites in that region…

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/ 1 January 2002

Bob’s plans to avoid the polls

Now that Uncle Bob has "won" the election up north, his team are already planning ways to avoid the next. South Africa might have broken ranks with the Commonwealth (not to mention common sense) by declaring Zimbabwe’s elections to have been credible, but the condemnation of the rest of the world is a burden sometimes….

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/ 1 January 2002

Candidate or conman?

Two Mancunian pranksters have been entertaining the English sporting public over the past few months with their escapades which have turned them into minor celebrities. What they do is sneak themselves into sports events, circumvent the security systems and then pretend to be players.