Look South
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A column written for Polity and the Engineering News focusing on trends in global political, social and cultural life and its relevance to South Africa. Articles cover 2004 to 2012. |
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Some lessons from Fearless Felix [
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Social media – friend or foe? [
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Putting the Presidential pickle in perspective [
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The serious business of tree hugging [
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Christmas is the time for taking [
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Does size matter? [
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Who is fit to lead the moral regeneration of a broken society? [
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Living the loopy Gautrain dream [
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Place or national identity and affinity for strangers [
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Proper analysis of the Libyan conflict needed [
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Lessons for combating stress [
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It's a rip-off get me out of here [
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Is cyber terrorism the new swine flu? [
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Is South Africa just one big vuvuzela? [
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South Africa 2010: Field of dreams? [
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The curious case of voting for no one [
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Crying wolf and legalised theft [
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Is bling the new opium of the people? [
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With great power comes great obfuscation [
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The big freeze and the politics of avoidance [
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Bloodsucking is all the rage [
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Cheating is now prevalent in many spheres of life [
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Give the gift of dignity, column inches [
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Use opportunity offered by rubbish [
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Belfast and Johannesburg: peas in a racist pod? [
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Where were you when the UK government imploded? [
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JZ cometh - am I bothered? [
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Is man-made climate change just hot air? [
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Is the credit crunch the new Black Death? [
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Shoe today, bomb tomorrow [
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What I learnt in 2008? [
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Does it matter that Obama is black [
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Why I prefer pizza to bankers [
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All South Africa needs some loving [
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A war on terror or a war on reason [
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The ghost of Jeffrey Benzien lives [
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Let's face it, holidays are strange [
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Zimbabwe - not a crisis, but a little mix-up [
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Viva the orange revolution [
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A little less conversation, more unity, please [
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Beware: SOHF is spreading [
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Learning from a trip down memory lane [
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Where is the light at the end of the tunnel [
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Environmentalism, war and diet coke [
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Hotels, life and everything else [
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Save the world, buy nappies [
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Truth a stranger, fiction the norm [
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Tips for riding a Zumanami [
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Are all excuses poppycock? [
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The truth commission lost in translation [
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Do we just not like inconvenient truths? [
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The bluetongue blues [
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Prejudiced and proud of it [
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How to talk about books you haven't read [
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The art of outsourcing frustration [
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The woes of 'affluenza' [
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Why squirrels are as dangerous as TV [
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Time flies in a coma [
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The war and peace legacy [
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Will more billionaires help the poor [
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Is there a point to the web? [
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Apology over the slave trade two centuries overdue [
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Don't worry, Zimbabwe is just a hiccup [
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Bigots, building bridges and multiculturalism [
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Are we all torturers inside? [
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Dinners, starving babies and fat cats [
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Ba Humbug to Christmas cynics [
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Stern warning about environmental disaster [
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Airport security: enough to turn one to drink [
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Where are the men in the battle for equality? [
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Sport and politics uncomfortable bedfellows [
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The times they are not a-changin’ [
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Exporting hope or foolish dreams? [
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Online] 1 September 2006 -
Get rich or die trying [
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Online] 18 August 2006 -
How to perform the perfect headbutt [
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Online] 28 July 2006 -
Desperately seeking Bill Gates, South African-style [
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Always take the weather with you [
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Online] 23 June 2006 -
Buying the football dream [
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The meaning of money [
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And now for the good news... [
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Are you calling me chicken? [
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You are either for him or against him [
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What's in a name? [
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Exporting reconciliation or reality TV [
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How to be a politically-correct slacker [
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Is South Africa becoming boring? [
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Reasons to be cheerful [
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The unequal cost of lying [
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Does the past have its price? [
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Online] 09 December 2005 -
Fancy borrowing a homeless person? [
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The perils of a political vacuum [
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Online] 30 September 2005 -
Is it coz i iz black? [
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Private healthcare still hurts [
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Fat is an African issue [
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London bombings are not a movie sequel [
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Let's stop moralising about corruption in Africa [
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In my day, young people had respect [
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Warning - this article may contain nuts [
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Phoney Tony gets his knuckles rapped [
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Online] 27 May 2005 -
Do drug companies and the media make us sick? [
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Sick of politics? Then read this...[
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Simple lesson from 9/11 and reprisals [
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Charity presents one-dimensional view of Africa [
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British society should modernise some traditions [
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You can kill burglars...can't you? [
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Mbeki stirs the ghost of Churchill [
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Instilling fear into scaremongers [
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Dr Brown, I presume? [
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Tsunami begs spending rethink [
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All I want for Christmas is…spam [
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Mugabe bowls the world for a duck [
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Time to stop permissible lies about the past [
Read Online] 26 November 2004
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Forget the war on terror, it's morals that count….[
Read Online]19 November 2004