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Clarity, Kriel & the Cape Times
December 28, 2013
A lack of adequate resources and asset-stripping by the Irish carbetbagger Tony — now Sir Anthony — O'Reilly are the real problems with the Cape Times, not the undeniable quality, let alone pigmentation, of the staff.
Letter to Cape Times
December 27, 2013
The Cape TImes provided a first rate example of the educative role of journalism when it pubished, on December 24, an emotive rant about the newspaper's Mandela coverage, illustrated by the two special edition wraparound pages that revealed clearly the poisonous myths peddled by the accompanying text.
INL: the plot thickens
December 24, 2013
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It appears that it was a fairly recently ordained pastor and political changeling, Wesley Douglas, was the organiser of the group that gatecrashed a Right to Know (R2K) protest in Cape Town on December 17.
The Marikana watershed
August 4, 2013
The massacre at Marikana was a watershed, a turning point that is likely to have a profound and long-term impact on South Africa's social and political environment.
When reality seems like satire
July 31, 2013
The South African political scene is becoming increasingly bizarre; reporting reality here can often seem like satire of the most extreme sort.
Why Amcu baulks
July 14, 2013
Amcu negotiators are not being pig-headed in not signing peace deals. They have a rank and file to answer to.
A micro-chip road to real democracy
July 1, 2013
Modern technology is making the bulk of humanity increasingly redundant. But the same technology could end the obscene waste of human potential.
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The need for real media transformation
January 14, 2014
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Transformation of the South African media is essential. But it has more to do with training and professionalism than with the pigmentation of the practitioners, let alone the owners.