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Now, back in the day, the police had a habit of setting dogs on people in the township
ATTERIDGEVILLE

OPINION | How I found out my dog wasn’t racist

Having a hound that barks at black people is tricky if you’re a white kid moving to a township

  • David Beukes
6 min read
Pelindaba is South Africa’s atomic research station. It now produces about 20 tons of silicon a year for international companies which is used in microchips for electronic components including the world supplier of isotopes for pharmaceuticals. This is where atomic bombs where produced in the 1970’s.
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

South African intelligence services are fluent in NoSpeak

This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it…

  • Richard Jurgens
18 min read