It might be gratifying for some of our compatriots to see politicians – from councillors, members of parliament right up to the Presidency – running around, popping up in schools across the length and breadth of our country, mostly unannounced, ostensibly to ensure that schools open on time and start teaching on the first day. With the media in tow, cameras clicking, we subject ourselves to this hype every year...

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Reconciliation. This is the word we heard more and more in the run-up to 1994 general elections and even more after those elections. These calls were being made even as Almond Nofomela, notorious Vlakplaas askari, was making startling allegations about the activities of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, most notable of which was the unleashing of Aids infected agents from Vlakplaas onto the shebeens of nearby Mamelodi...

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As the year 2009 recedes and we look forward to the new one, we would be justified to pray for the disappearance of the many adverse factors attending our lives. Chief among them would be the world economic squeeze which has seen to the contraction of our national wealth, the loss of about a million jobs and the intensification of poverty in our country. Being officially the most unequal society in the world, this scale of job losses is the last thing we need...

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As the year 2009 recedes and we look forward to the new one, we would be justified to pray for the disappearance of the many adverse factors attending our lives. Chief among them would be the world economic squeeze which has seen to the contraction of our national wealth, the loss of about a million jobs and the intensification of poverty in our country. Being officially the most unequal society in the world, this scale of job losses is the last thing we need...

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We end the year on a rather depressing note, witnessing as we did, the big world conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark, failing to agree on measures to reduce the emission of harmful gases into the atmosphere that contribute towards the raising of the temperature on our planet...

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