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When Goldblatt’s “Some Afrikaners Photographed” was first published, it was met with anger, with outrage and ultimately with a sales boycott. According to the back cover, “most of the small printrun had to be sold off for a song”.

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I ordered my Kindle the very day that Amazon announced the international release of the device. On the 19th, as promised, I was informed that it had been shipped, and would arrive within a few days. I had in the meantime left on a business trip, but on my return on the 25th of October, [...]

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Just after nine o’clock last night, Lindy and I remarked to each other that we can smell yet another veld-fire. Just before one we were woken up by the sirens, and the strong smell of smoke.

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Based on the responses to a recent blog post, I have some observations on the way South Africans seem to view a tertiary education.

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Lindy has been featured in the September issue of South Africa’s Oprah magazine !!

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Lindy and I had the opportunity to attend the first lecture in the Cape Town , Green Point Stadium 2010 lecture series a while back – in mid-July as a matter of fact. The outline of the lecture series can be found here, on WhatsOnSA. The lecture itself was fascinating – the stadium in Cape [...]

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Lindy and I were invited to dinner recently. We had a great evening – great food and company. But we broke one cardinal rule … we got distracted into discussing politics. Normally this would not be a problem. I expect, especially in the South African context, that discussing politics would be a fairly heated and [...]

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