Border Wars
(Travel)

Border Wars

As the coiled adder of xenophobia begins to unwind itself at home once again it might be time to ask ourselves whether others are battling a similar foe and what [...]

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  • Posted on 30th Jul 2010
    by Jerome Mitchell
  • 4 comments

Das Boot: To Bassas and Back
(Travel)

Das Boot: To Bassas and Back

Bassas da India as a destination would please the old Nissan marketeers, remember the slogan “Life’s a journey, enjoy the ride”? Rising from the cold, dark depths of 3000 meters, [...]

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  • Posted on 27th May 2010
    by Jerome Mitchell
  • 6 comments

Emigrating to Aussie. Really?
(Travel)

Emigrating to Aussie. Really?

R.J. Stove writes from Australia.. 
Sometimes a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … emigrating.
And when it does, I often seem to hear about it. My e-mail inbox, quiescent until [...]

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  • Posted on 15th Apr 2010
    by Guest Contribution
  • 3 comments

Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???
(Sport)

Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???

An email has been doing the rounds the last few weeks about how the 2010 FIFA World Cup is going to turn South Africans’ lives upside down.
Below is an extract [...]

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  • Posted on 7th Apr 2010
    by Alistair Hayward
  • 2 comments

Vampire Long Weekend
(Travel)

Vampire Long Weekend

I have just come back from the United States. Ten days in the land of the free and the living dead and I can’t get Vampires off the brain.
 Americans are [...]

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  • Posted on 31st Mar 2010
    by Jerome Mitchell
  • 0 comments