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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Sue Grafton observes that: “If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.” Indeed! Historically, men have been very prominent in the design and making of shoes. It is self evident that men design, make and sell millions of pairs of high heel shoes in their many factories and stores throughout the world. But men don’t wear high heel shoes. They make them for women...

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A few days ago, a young woman in her early twenties plunged a dagger in my heart, casually and innocently. I had also casually asked her if the municipality in her home town of Mthatha had repaired the gaping potholes in the streets and whether it was collecting refuse. I was in Mthatha a few years ago and I was shocked by the appalling state of the streets and the filth that was everywhere. To avoid the multiple deep holes in the streets, motorists had resorted to driving on the pavements and by so doing, endangering the life and limb of pedestrians...

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