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ECD; Remember the Kids but don’t Forget the Staff

For a man who’s been ducking slingshots and daggers of late, it must have come as a welcome respite for President Cyril Ramaphosa to take some time away from the hostility and mingle with an altogether receptive and bubblier crowd. In quintessentially Madiba-ish fashion the president got to hang out with the toddlers of the …

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Meals on Wheels; A Lifeline to the Masses

Every Thursday around 13:00, the Wheels on Meals minivan blares an incessant, yet eagerly anticipated hoot through the gustblown streets of Colesberg’s Zwelitsha Location. Play ceases in these untarred streets as children scurry for their lunchboxes, racing one another to join what will pretty soon unfold into a tedious queue.  In dribs and drabs the …

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The Team: Lunatics going in as everyone else bails

A decidedly poignant definition of what journalism is, I once came across during the somber aftermath of some natural disaster (hurricane Katrina, I think) that ravaged parts of the US. It went something along the line of “people going in when everyone else is getting out”.  No doubt a phrase that encapsulates the footing of …

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