About ten years ago I sat in a icy mobile SAfm radio studio in Grahamstown during the Festival. I was “driving the desk” for a recording that was taking place. Behind the microphone was Monica Fairall, and her guest was a holistic healer of some sort who specialised a swinging crystal pendulum that was meant [...]
Jun 23 2009 | Posted in
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I’m a relative newcomer to the Twitstream. Usually a rapid adopter of new technologies, I’m not sure why it took me so long to get my head around the value of Tweets. I half-heartedly opened an account a few months back, but it has only been in the last week or two that I’ve become [...]
Jun 17 2009 | Posted in
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I type this from the back of a taxi barreling its way to Cape Town airport. I’m not entirely sure why we’re barreling, though, because I’m going to miss my plane and there seems to be little point risking life and limb to shorten the four hour wait until the next flight. It’s still going [...]
Jun 17 2009 | Posted in
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Staff at the SABC continued to stage a sit-in outside Acting CEO Gab Mampone’s office yesterday, despite loud hammering and drilling from the inside of the office which seems to indicate that Mampone is intent on tunnelling out. Mampone has been barricaded in his office since last week, with access being provided only to replace [...]
Jun 13 2009 | Posted in
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