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Scenes from the SAMAS national conference
PHAKAMISA MAYABA / Amid a clutter of pensioned battle tanks, the 88th national conference of the South...
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Man About Colesberg: Part 2
By Phakamisa Mayaba It’s not exactly the French Riviera. In fact, it could serve as the backdrop to a...
Government of National Stupidity: own goals and stuff-ups galore
PHAKAMISA MAYABA/ If one thing is clear about the GNU conglomerate, it’s that, although it has a smattering...
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Can the Township Tourism Strategy dig Kuyasa out of poverty?
PHAKAMISA MAYABA / Given the latest unemployment figures, the Northern Cape Township Tourism Strategy...
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Malema sad as Floyd says cheers
PHAKAMISA MAYABA  / Just over a month ago. the nation woke up to the news that the EFF’s president Julius...
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Man About Colesberg: Part 1
PHAKAMISA MAYABA / An acquaintance of mine often recounts, rather wretchedly, an offending utterance...
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A tale of two SAMAs and the Kemper Museum
PHAKAMISA MAYABA / So we got word that we’d  been booked for the SAMAs this year. Stoked, we imagined...
Umthombo Wolwazi choir featured
Colesberg soars on the wings of song
PHAKAMISA MAYABA / Three Colesberg schools — Colesberg Primary School, Umso High School and Umthombo...
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Sandile Dikeni: The great Karoo writer you’ve never heard of
PHAKAMISA MAYABA / Antjie Krog’s Country of my Skull is one of those haunting books one never gets used...
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Youth Day, the Colesberg Four and voting day
PHAKAMISA MAYABA  / A flaccid anticlimax, then, last month’s general election. South Africa’s youth –...