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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: 1, 2, 3 Dial a Celebrity
Haji Mohamed Dawjee takes a look at the latest bizarre trend among celebrities of sharing mobile numbers to engage with fans.
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ANALYSIS: Royal couple test House of Windsor revolving door
Just as politicians and civil servants rely on access to their former contacts, the couple’s success will depend on staying close to their relatives in Buckingham Palace.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Don’t wait for water shedding to change your behaviour
If electricity’s unreliability has caused us inconvenience, we must shudder to think what water unavailability will do to humanity, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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NKOSIKHONA DUMA: Motshekga must get real about the matric results
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga needs to paint the full picture when it comes to matric results and highlight the challenges faced by the country's young people, writes Nkosikhona Duma.
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AYANDA-ALLIE PAINE: Whatever their races, children know how to love
Ayanda Allie Paine reflects on race relations in South Africa after a flight from Durban to Johannesburg.
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OMRY MAKGOALE: Press freedom imagined under a Malema presidency
Leaders who ban independent media groups from their conference cannot be trusted, writes Omry Makgoale.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Treat booze as the problem it is
Alcohol is too much of a health and social problem for us to play ‘cool kids’ who say nothing negative about binge drinking, says Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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ADRIAN EPHRAIM: How personal triumphs helped the Proteas bounce back
The Proteas' collective desire to win was made up of a few personal moments of triumph among SA's players, who in the run-up to this Test series will have had doubts strewn all over their minds.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Loutish behaviour gives racism a bad name
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says that South Africans are hyper-sensitive about race and are quick to conclude that bad behaviour is racism when it can be explained as some people being plain old-fashioned hoodlums who enjoy visiting misery on anyone they encounter.
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SELLO LEDIGA: The EFF is Malema and Malema is the EFF
In the wake of the EFF's second elective conference where Julius Malema retained his position as party leader, Sello Lediga examines the party's meteoric rise in SA politics and asks if it will survive beyond Malema given the allegations against him.
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BUSANI NGCAWENI: Behold the age of demagoguery and un-think
We are in the age of un-thinking. In fact, the idea seems almost blasphemous to contemplate; as are the concepts of reason, of rationality and pure common sense, writes Busani Ngcaweni.
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Judith February's 2020 wish for Ramaphosa - to sift the truth
Rampahosa would have the backing of citizens and big business, if he provided an honest and firm rendering of the challenges that face us, writes Judith February.
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EXPLAINER: Why foreign nationals can’t just leave SA
The world marks International Migrants Day on 18 December. Eyewitness News unpacks the reason why a group of foreign nationals urgently wants to leave the country and the challenges they face trying to do so.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Attempts to extradite the Guptas is good news for us all
South Africans need more action over talk, and the Guptas answering for allegations against them is a good way to show that, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: True reconciliation is not only about social cohesion
President Cyril Ramaphosa says true reconciliation is not only about social cohesion. It is also about political and economic transformation.
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REVIEW: The Longest March by Fred Khumalo
Amo Ramela found herself fascinated by the journey of 7,000 Zulu mineworkers who walked from Johannesburg to KwaZulu-Natal fleeing a war between the Boers and the British Empire.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Keep calm and restore our confidence in cricket
Cricket South Africa must restore confidence in the game in the minds of the disillusioned cricket fan that has had to watch as corruption and incompetence strangle the game, writes Judith February.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Eskom's fiasco is one more step towards a failed state
Anyone who able to is considering going off Eskom's energy grid - and that's a sure sign of a potential failed state, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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OMRY MAKGOALE: The impact of slates and factions on the ANC and SA
Former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle's funeral was testament to the tragic result of factions within the ruling party, writes Omry Makgoale.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Eskom, SAA, Prasa - we'll do what we must to save them
Despite the depth of current challenges, none of our SOEs is lost, says the president.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: From IT to the arts in the workplace
From doctors, lawyers and accountants being the cream of the crop, to software developers and coders being celebrated, is it finally time for the BA brigade to get its moment in the sun, asks Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
