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I highly recommend this documentary, “Face of the Enemy” to anyone who has watched (ad nauseum) Hollywood productions about the “Vietnam War”. The following passages were taken from YouTube: Over four million Vietnamese died in what one side calls the American War and the other side calls the Vietnam War. A war so brutal, that…
During this age of social media where almost everyone has access to a computer and an opinion the worst thing you can do as a writer is take seriously every nasty troll in the comments section. I have made it part of my job to respond to comments – those worthy of replying to and…
“Those so keen on keeping the economy open are not keen on carrying the cost of the health calamity either“ I have a doctored picture on my computer somewhere of a man in a space suit standing on the moon. Almost 384,400km away (depending on timing) the earth is being obliterated by an enormous meteor….
A scan through the statements and speeches of Julius Malema over four or five years is quite a marvellous lesson in the force of rhetoric, and when read intertextually (read what he says at any one time alongside what he has said elsewhere), his language and the reportage on his statements reflect a veritable lexical…
I have long since given up reading the comments section of online publications. On the occasion that I do read what I have written – once it’s published I typically don’t care much – I am often gobsmacked by the comments, and the lack of understanding of how journalism works. While there is a general…
I was a panelist on the 2020 Anton Lebowski Memorial Lecture hosted by Stellenbosch University on 12 September. This year’s theme was on Social Justice. Below is the video. Please leave comments if you wish.