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Like all of us, Gil Scott-Heron was a profoundly flawed individual, battling his demons while reaching out for a seemingly illusive truth. What worth is there in our lives for the well-grounded, immacutely groomed Oprahesque superhuman role model for us mortals who...
NO NEED FOR RETRENCHEMENTS Delegates wrapped up the 19th annual African Mining Indaba in early February 2013 full of back-thumping promises to improve the public image of the sector. Little wonder that the mining captains feel the industry needs a facelift: since the...
Phillip Tobias, who died on 7th June 2012 aged 86, was probably South Africa’s most honoured and decorated scientist. He was world renowned for his path-finding work in palaeoanthropology that combined studies of paleontology and physical anthropology. At a time when...
Pearl Mathibela says Brett Murray's painting was disrespectful both to Zuma and the nation Nation building is being undermined, not the Constitution As the furore over the much-publicised (and now defaced) "painting" of one Brett Murray erupted, my initial reaction...