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Peter Bruce, veteran South African newspaper editor and commentator, interviews the country's social and political leaders and experts in a weekly effort to explain what is actually going on in this complicated country. Bruce's interviews are about making events easy to understand for people with little time to listen.
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Cyril, a plodder by day and a cowboy in the dark?
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May 13, 2026 |
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Why Helen Zille is unlikely to become Johannesburg’s mayor
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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How the vanities of small differences trap Africa
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Cyril picks a number, any number…
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Can we really make money out of our police stations?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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“You have to get your hand on the steering wheel of state”
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Stuck in the 80s, has the ANC found the perfect adversary in Donald Trump?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Steenhuisen is just following the vaccine rules
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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If Ramaphosa caused the navy exercise fiasco, will anyone tell us?
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Why Imports don’t explain our decline
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Amateur hour in South African diplomacy?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Fantastic Summit, but sadly no consensus
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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So, are we turning the economic corner or still getting to the corner?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Renewal? Seriously? How does the ANC cook with rotten eggs?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Can the State step on the gas?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Why Paul Mashatile should never be president
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Time now to reopen our embassy in Tel Aviv?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Can Cyril get a US trade deal over the line?
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Jumping Jack Flash just wants gas gas gas
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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People, we’re tired
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Shooting the Messenger
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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When a Trillion Rand might not be enough
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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"The Americans Really Want to Trade With Us"
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Why Enoch and the Treasury are fair game
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May 06, 2025 |
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Is Helen Zille bad for the DA brand?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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"Putin stole too much..."
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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What Business Wants from a GNU
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Steel yourself...
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The deal Cyril has to do with Donald
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Don’t do it
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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They’re mature, we’re premature…
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Trump takes the GNU back to the brink
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Cyril’s in his happy place
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Maintenance, it was always maintenance…
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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The right kind of bloodlust
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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"We need leadership and discipline"
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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So What?
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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It's OK to be a little scared
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Home Truths
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Pots and pots of money
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Cyril's first GNU reshuffle loading?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The DA is never wrong, Peter
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Why on earth gas?
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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SA has the right stuff
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Is there an adult in the room?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Matters of Fact
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Orchestrating Manoeuvres in the dark
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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And What Rough Beast Next?
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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If you're going to create winners where do the losers go?
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May 15, 2024 |
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For Crying Out Loud, Calm Down
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May 07, 2024 |
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Finally, white smoke from the DA’s policy chimney
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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The Power of One Tough Zulu
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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South Africa is a black country now
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Is that column doric or iconic?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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When business stops trying
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Time to step on the gas?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Why the ANC might be happy polling 40% — it's not even trying yet.
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Gwede Mantashe’s quiet race to build a gas-fired rival to Eskom
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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And now for something all too familiar
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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What the hell is going on?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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A Rubicon for Big Business
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Time to Rise?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Perhaps not quite the perfect match
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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High, dry and very lucky
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Execrable English or Cunning Code?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Cyril Ramaphosa's sweet dreams
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Honeyed tongues and hearts of gall
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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When will BRICS actually do something?
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Did the moon just get shot?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Business tries one more time
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Eskom’s Energy Availability bias
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Say it out loud
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Complain and campaign
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Cyril’s subtle shuffle shuttle
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Oh for a peace of the action
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Another Brief Encounter
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The DA bowls me over
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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South Africa has a skills problem
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May 31, 2023 |
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Crimea river
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May 24, 2023 |
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A Brigety too far…
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May 17, 2023 |
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Leadership is about the country, not the party
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May 09, 2023 |
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When you see a fork in the road, take it
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The Book of John
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Heaven will have to wait
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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What Was That?
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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How a stinking government kills its children
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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A Hiding To Nothing
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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The writing on the wall…
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Absolute zero
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Send in the Clowns...
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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True Crime Stories
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Say what?
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Half full? Half empty? Or just not full?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Curb your enthusiasm folks… 2029’s the year; not 2024
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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SA's power cuts are deliberately inflicted by the ruling party - Robin Renwick
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Cyril's big call
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Big Batteries? Here’s a way to do it our way...
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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A Boer made a plan and that’s a pebble bed nuclear reactor orbiting above us
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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The system is broken
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Helen Zille on the ANC polling below 40%
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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What did we need most — education or skills?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Will the ANC go quietly in 2024?
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Flights of Fancy
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Lines in the sand
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Gqeberha 2022 is not Cape Town 2018
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Not a moment too soon
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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In six weeks Cyril can save South Africa
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Let's try not to pass gas
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Too complicated to contemplate?
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May 23, 2022 |
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Just, please, stop talking and get on with it
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May 16, 2022 |
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It's decision time
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May 09, 2022 |
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Make the call already
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The worst of all
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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How would you like your transition Sir? Just, or corrupt?
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Gas is just so much hot air...
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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There is a crack, we must get through
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Batteries not included
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Don’t look down
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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SA has a power problem? Just nuke it.
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Cyril's search for just one horse
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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The biggest story of our lives
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Our Hiding To Nothing
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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And now? What happens now?
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Austerity in SA? It’s just not happening...
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Stop squatting on South Africa’s spectrum
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Earth to ANC: Avoid disappointment - lower your expectations
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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The DA may not have an economic policy but its message this election is new
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Money for nothing and your pills for free
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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What’s the rush?
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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The day the TV went black
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Why Duferco is just walking away
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Does “intervention” work?
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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How to tame a bad spy
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Why is clean energy just so, well, exhausting
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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What eye? What needle?
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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When the Lions go, where does SA rugby go?
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Flying lessons with Minister Pravin Gordhan
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Big job — saving Johannesburg
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Who’s been a bad boy then?
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Will we ever cotton on?
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Can SA keep up with the Joneses?
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May 31, 2021 |
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Who do we think we are?
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May 24, 2021 |
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Localisation — is it siege or surge?
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May 18, 2021 |
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When Cyril speaks out of both sides of his mouth
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May 03, 2021 |
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The R1 deal that could make or break South Africa
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Lockdown alcohol bans? The game has suddenly changed.
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Without Graeme Smith our cricketing future is bleak
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Man bites dog: The political news in SA
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Getting, farming and land right, once and for all
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Scrapping for Steel
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Paper Cuts from the Pink ‘Un
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Speaking truth on power
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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The IMF can’t help SA. We don’t need dollars!
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Are we crazy enough to think we can change South Africa?
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Heavy Metal Blues
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Tough love and real science for Ramaphosa
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Why Gidon Novick can’t stop flying
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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To what problem is Afrikaans the solution?
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Finally, an SOE chairman standing up to political bullying
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Business and the brink
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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How much pressure can Ramaphosa take?
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Helen Zille, still standing...
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Nov 12, 2020 |