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What soap to wash a brain.

In my last brainwashing bash I forgot to mention the greatest success story since WW2. Men, women old or young, children all have been convinced that only Blue Jeans can …

Brain?washing

The Washing of brains.   When I’m invited by people I straight away try to find a fairly upright chair near a table because I can’t stand sofas or armchairs …

Nelson Mandela, at last…

                                       Nelson Mandela, at last…   Well, it seems that the last whisks of the Great Mandela Mania are sweeping past to their ultimate oblivion. It must certainly have …

Not a long walk to Richness

  Year by year it is becoming more evident what the freedom fighters in South Africa were after while being embattled in their heroic ’Struggle’. Democracy or the uplifting of …

Is Dr. Simphiwe Sesanti right?

                                           Investigating the failures of black governments to serve black people, Dr. Sesanti states in his last paragraphs of “ Was Mandela’s hand forced?” (CT 31/10)  that the world’s …

Electric Cars?

What I think about green notions and electric cars, as explained in Business Report. The Publisher and Executive Editor, Simply Green Magazine, Mr. Chris Erasmus, wants to see facts when …

Another letter to the Cape Times

INAPTOCRACY.  A new word invented by Jean d’Ormesson of the Académie française.  “Inaptocracy: A system of government whereby those least able to govern are elected by those least able to …

Letter to the Cape Times

                             www.maritimebooks.co.za    Almost all governments on earth are totally corrupt. Possibly a few exceptions exist; Andorra, Liechtenstein and maybe Switzerland. We all have an idea how scientists, farmers, …

Reflections

You know, I like to do a bit of writing more often than not if only to get my own ideas in proper shape. I’m not a good speaker; the …

A plugged Suez Canal?

Good Day Nick  Thanks for the email – I will be writing about this topic again, if not this week, then next.  Below is an article that appeared in The …

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