Author: Busisiwe Hoho

Pent-up dissatisfaction after the Soccer World Cup burst into a fresh striking season this week. Some of the strikes will cause minor annoyances for citizens who just have to stoically accept that some workers have good reason to withhold their services.

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Goblins, trolls, giant spiders and a dragon are some of the foes Bilbo Baggins faces in The Hobbit. But what Noluthando Nakani likes about JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novel is that Bilbo and his friends are able to overcome each challenge, ready to face the next.

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Thirteen months, 24 000 km, two continents and 18 countries, this is the epic tale of two St Andrew’s men who cycled from Scotland to Cape Town. Grant Ross and Grahamstonian Sebastian Davies departed for Scotland on 8 July 2009 to embark on an overland, unassisted cycle expedition.

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Nobody designed this settlement. For want of a better word, it grew. No architects, no plans: just chaos dancing with order and a pattern that repeats itself inside itself.

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Both of these simple, slow food recipes are informed by the rich blend of knowledge practices of the Eastern Cape. Rich in iron, the first is a dish that uses leafy vegetables as a prime ingedient.

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Two Rhodes University students, Michael Canon and Natalie Ross are heading to Edinburgh, Scotland at the end of the month to compete against the best sportsmen in the world.

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The ADHD rats couldn’t control themselves. They kept pressing the button as if in an automatic frenzy, invariably checking to see if it had worked. After a while, the ordinary rats had realized their reward for pressing the button would only be forthcoming after a short delay. So they stopped. But the ADHD rats could not stop. And as Dr Vivienne Russell will tell you, people with ADHD are just like those rats.

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Help us to protect you and your neighbourhood’ is Eskom’s theme for the 2010 National Safety Campaign which took place this week. Eskom is sending a clear message: electricity kills.

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