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SA HAS THE BEST ECONOMIST IN SOUTH AFRICA . HE IS SECOND BEST TO ROBERT MURDERING MUGABE . AS WE ALL LOVE TO CALL HIM , MAD BOB . SECOND BEST ECONOMIST IN AFRICA IS MALEMA , 3RD BEST IS ZUMA . SA IS DONE FOR .
by Kevin

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27 August 2010 00:53

Home to life and death in Africa

From genteel little Holland back to blood and guts in a survival society.

Happiness's baby was stillborn in my daughter, Vanessa's car last night before they could get to hospital.

Vanessa was rushing her domestic helper to Coronationville Hospital but the baby was delivered providentially right outside a cluster of medical suites in Honeydew.

She rushed inside: "Please, I need a doctor! A baby is being born in my car."

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10 August 2010 01:25

The whispering sardine can

Aboard the Airbus A380 to Paris.

We paid a R2000 premium to fly to Europe on the Airbus A380, the world's biggest airliner, and conclude that the value is on the outside, not on the inside.

The sight of those four immense engines and curvaceous wings that stretch out of sight gave me my R2000's worth. The silence and the ease of takeoff are astonishing. Now we are approaching Charles de Gaulle Airport there's a sea of cloud out there and the plane seems suspended like a hot air balloon. At least until we land.

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26 July 2010 10:45

Surviving Netcare

And Discovery and the medical mafia.

JOHANNESBURG - Last Wednesday I asked the doctor for a prescription for a cough and he put me straight into hospital: diagnosis pneumonia.

I had just had a Myprodol and didn't even feel sick. He was cautious, as I have a serious underlying lung condition obvious only to me and to him.

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13 July 2010 11:47

Bidding starts for Paul the Octopus

He could make us zillions but he's retiring to a boring undersea garden.

JOHANNESBURG - Rumour has it that Allan Gray flew off to the aquarium in Oberhausen with a view to hiring Paul the Octopus to head its investment team.

One hears that Simon Marais was only number ten in the queue. Ahead of him were AIG, Lehman brothers, Merrill Lynch and sundry others rated only two years ago as AAA by the ratings agencies, none of whom has a psychic octopus as an oracle.

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05 July 2010 15:01

Bring on the Olympics

World Cup gives us capacity, Olympics would improve returns on stadia.

JOHANNESBURG - To justify SA's mammoth investment in the Fifa World Cup, we really have to get the Olympics.

This dream of President Zuma will get us a second use of some of the grand stadiums that cost R11bn and after July 11 will stand as silent monuments to our national inferiority complex.

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