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Fear. Thats the shadow many South Africans live in everyday. So many brutal killings and rapes, then there are muggings and hijackings. I’ve been mugged twice in a span of a month, it was traumatizing because after that I was too scared to walk...
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It’s unnerving how many posters and signs, pamphlets and flyers are scattered across the country on light poles, walls,handed out to you in the traffic.
I for one am comfortable with the concept that a woman can decide If she wants to have a...
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From a distance they look like the work of children. Little white figures, little tents for playtime. Definitely not long term accommodation for adults and families. This is what the site for displaced people looks like in Midrand. Word isn’t out to...
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In the City Press newspaper on the 1st of June 2008, I saw an article on 11 with the title Univen is given a cyber boost, varsity opens it’s first computer laboratory. Many schools in South Africa cannot or don’t (it’s arguable how it really is)...
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The inconsistency in local peoples beliefs always strikes me, in fact it pains me. I’ve come across many God-fearing Christians who go to church regularly, who would look at you scornfully upon hearing that you are atheist or agnostic, who at the same...
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Action forgood - Xenophobia
To members of ***forgood Network***
Devon Mitchell Brough
Today at 11:21am
Reply In light of the recent xenophobic attacks I thought it would be a wonderful idea to spend some time with displaced refugee children and...
From controlling dictators to people attacking others while they are down. Africa is sick, and it seems to be getting worse. To some extent I’d like to blame globalisation and this notion of the individual. It’s a simple concept for...
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Teenage pregnancy is a problem in South Africa (well it wasn’t such a big problem many years ago when we weren’t “civilised”). Women have become socialised into building careers for themselves, being affirmative in all ways...
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Petrol prices are going up at midnight tonight and with it so do the prices of everything else It’s a process, but there are people like Tiger Brands who cash in on these hikes. Considering that Tiger Brands was fined for fixing the price of...
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It’s 19:00 and it’s time for the e-tv news, well there is nothing too shocking looks like the world will still be rotating tomorrow. Except maybe for some Zimbabweans who are perhaps going through one of the roughest periods in their history...
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