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A blog by tonymac04
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general writings
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I still regard a book as a minor miracle - the amount of information and entertainment contained between the covers of a book is really amazing when you think about it.
The space wherein I'm free - part one
The day had dawned grey, only slight wisps of dull pink enlivening the clouds that hung heavy over the hills on the other side of the old valley, and Matt shivered as he climbed into his car with the heavy black overcoat hanging loosely on his shoulders.
Memories of Pondoland
In 1960 my family moved to Buntingville, a former Methodist mission a few miles outside of mThatha (formerly known as Umtata) where my father became headmaster of the junior secondary school.
Gandhi in South Africa - racism and non-violence
Gandhi landed in Durban, in what is now kwaZulu-Natal Province, in May 1893, a newly-qualified barrister sent to do some legal work for a Bombay legal firm which had some interests in South Africa.
The Currie Cup - South Africa's premier rugby competition
The Blue Bulls rugby team inspires fanatical support in Pretoria
Spoonerisms
A slightly naughty look at a funny spay of weaking? Speak of waying? Whtever!
South African Women's Day 2009
A very personal reflection on the struggle of women for dignity and freedom in South Africa
Postcards illustrate a tour of a tense Europe at the beginning of
Europe in the early 1900s was in a state of rising tension with the great powers, Germany, France, Britain and Russia all vying for power. The tension was fuelled by their colonial rivalries.
Cochlear implants - bane or hope for deaf children?
A child gets a cochlear implant while debate continues around the ethics of the procedure
Miles Davis and Gil Evans gestated masterpieces
Miles Davis and Gil Evans cooked up some musical masterpieces together which changed the way jazz progressed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This Hub looks at their three masterpeices.
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