SmithInAfrica
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"I learn from my sisters how to be a real Swazi girl." City Press joins the 60,000 throng at the annual reed dance:
about 13 hours ago
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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"One of the most stupid wars in history." South African press joins the condemnation in the Iraq war post-mortem:
5:14 PM Sep 4th
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Interesting week for South Africa's The Star to devote five pages to the innocent joys of tourism in Maputo:
4:10 PM Sep 4th
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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At the Mail & Guardian literary festival last night and today. Editor Nic Dawes landed some punches for press freedom:
3:49 PM Sep 4th
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Will Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe smile at this? Or throw the laptop across the room? He's been freshlyground and Zapiroed:
9:34 AM Sep 3rd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Kenyan speaker praises the World Cup for bringing South Africans together and inspiring young people in townships to become footballers.
4:12 AM Sep 3rd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Tolsi: "The World Cup will be our next arms deal. If not bigger than the arms deal. Once the Mail & Guardian reinvestigate..."
4:11 AM Sep 3rd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Niren Tolsi of Mail & Guardian criticises lack of forward planning on youth sport and rise of tenderpreneurs. "How much went to kickbacks?"
4:10 AM Sep 3rd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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One speaker says she "felt raped by Fifa." Another says: "It was a big orgasm. After an orgasm, what's left? Shattered desires."
4:03 AM Sep 3rd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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At a Legacy of World Cup event at Wits. German Willi Lemke is "shocked" by the avalanche of criticism of the event and selling out to Fifa.
4:02 AM Sep 3rd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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At the first night of Tuesdays with Morrie at Theatre on the Square in Sandton. Crisp and witty writing and pitch perfect acting: a triumph.
1:44 PM Sep 2nd
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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South African writers Nadine Gordimer () and Athol Fugard () interviewed in The Guardian in the UK.
3:27 PM Sep 1st
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe "is said to have a form of cancer". Blessing-Miles Tendi in The Guardian in the UK:
3:22 PM Sep 1st
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Tour guide in Cape Town: "Our president likes the ladies' panty too much. Like Bill Clinton. There is no way he will serve a second term."
1:59 PM Sep 1st
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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How South Africa helped defeat Hitler. But who will remember Jan Smuts' 60th anniversary, asks John Kane-Berman:
1:57 PM Sep 1st
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Went to the first night of Womb Tide at the Market Theatre: tremendous style, invention and emotional punch. Quack! was a bit Tim Burton odd
1:50 PM Sep 1st
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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First night of The Butcher Boys at the Market Theatre. Not always gripping but occasionally funny, sometimes strange and often beautiful.
5:46 PM Aug 31st
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from Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Went to launch of book The Long Shadow of Apartheid, then first course of a Sunday Times dinner, now on to a first night at Market Theatre.
10:57 AM Aug 31st
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Gleeful anarchy on the tobacco auction floors as Zimbabwe agriculture makes an unlikely recovery. From Jason Moyo:
12:51 PM Aug 28th
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from Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
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At red carpet opening of Taj Cape Town hotel. Zuma a no show, but spoke to Archbishop Thabo Makgoba who played a straight bat on politics.
12:41 PM Aug 28th
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from Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
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- Name David Smith
- Location Johannesburg, South Africa
- Web http://www.guardi...
- Bio Africa correspondent of The Guardian newspaper (UK)
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