Monthly Archives: March 2010

Is Malema just a pinker Floyd?

Zimbabwean journalists, now illegal workers living in Jozi’s mines, have discovered a secret dossier that showcases one Julius Malema suffering from clinical depression. The dossier, found in the abandoned mines of Diepklip bordering the dry…

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Fat cats and foul play

Originally published by New Internationalist. I am at Moses Mabhida stadium for a tour, when the cute journo I’m chatting to spots a giant leopard bobbing his fractious head for a couple of photographers to…

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100 days to being screwed over

I don’t like press conferences. Organised to propagate nothing more than a particular message, they are spaces where real questions are rarely asked because they are really no place for real answers. Everything is pre-empted,…

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Blogger who hurts, offends and tickles you

On being named among Leadership magazine’s top South African bloggers.

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A blog with possibilities

Leadership magazine, in early 2010, featured their choice of South Africa’s top bloggers. I made the cut. Read the full feature here.

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The Book Dresser of Istanbul

Originally published by New Internationalist. I meet Dogan Ülgenciler in a cloud of cigarette smoke in his broken-down but cosy office below road level in Kadiköy, an old district on the Anatolian side of Istanbul….

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