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Who would ever think that an award-winning young South African jazz bassist, with impressive collaborations in Europe and the USA, and past scholarship opportunities that helped grow his music, would divulge some inner personal turmoil in his first CD album,...
Dear Msholozi, As a nationalist and long-time supporter of the African National Congress, I am disturbed by reports that the SA Communist Party regards you as their useful idiot to help them get – and keep – their hands on the levers of state power. Are these reports...
Originally in Business Day, 2012-03-05 Adcorp’s method of measuring employment "generates such massive employment levels that it does away with SA’s unemployment problem in one fell swoop, lowering the unemployment rate to around 5%", write Dr Kerr and Prof Wittenberg...
TALKING DIRTYGone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers, New Press, 2005On average, each American produces almost 4.2 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day, almost a third of it in packaging. This staggering statistic starts Heather Rogers’s book on garbage, a...
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is the first volume in a projected 14-volume set, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, of all the extant writings of this great revolutionary socialist in English—all available newspaper articles and speeches, significant polemical and...
On Monday, nostalgia, tinged with concern, will provide a worker and union undercurrent when the post office, with justifiable pride, celebrates the centenary of South Africa’s first delivery of mail by air. Similar feelings afflict postal workers the world over as...