Hogarth trawls the corridors of power, listening at corners and sifting the detritus of government to reveal venality and puncture unseemly pride. He awards brickbats, but no bouquets.
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Andrew Donaldson: The president has suggested that the media is making money by printing stories about his newest daughter, an issue, so to speak, that was private and would allegedly be settled in accordance with the customs and traditional practices of the Zuma, South Africa's fastest-growing tribal grouping.
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Pinky Khoabane: If you thought that corporate greed, unethical conduct and the moral ineptitude of South Africa's mining industry stretched only as far as its exploitation of the mineral and human resources of this country and those of neighbouring countries, then think again.
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Jonathan Jansen: Spend some time at a good school and, sooner or later, you will hear a senior teacher say something like: "Every teacher is a language teacher."
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S'Thembiso Msomi: Let us celebrate, for a change.
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Germans are an aggressive lot who hate to lose. With that in mind, rest assured they will give the World Cup their best shot
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Phylicia Oppelt: A couple of days ago, my two daughters were playing "make up" - the very girly-girl exercise of foraging through my make-up bag.
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Jacquie Myburgh: NOT so long ago it was impossible to imagine a South African film in the Oscar line-up for the best movie of the year.
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Peter Delmar: Last week the US unemployment rate came down. Hooray!
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Toby Shapshak: "This is the call you were expecting ." the text message began, from a Sentech spin doctor who read my comments in this column in June 2008.
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David Shapiro: I have been asked to address a group of school leavers about to enter university. What advice could I impart to youngsters whose parents were still toddlers when I enrolled at Wits back in the mid-60?
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Jeremy Thomas: Something always smelt bad about the new year. It was as if, after their holidays, the big money managers sniffed the air and decided that last year's relief rally had run itself into the ground.
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Matthew du Plessis: In theory, it should be fairly easy for Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise to enjoy a cup of tea in the here and now.
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Ian Mann : There is something special about reading an uncompromisingly South African book that could take its place with the best of its genre on international book shelves.
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Matthew Lester : When Julius Malema suggests the nationalisation of mines, with or without compensation, at least he represents the downtrodden.
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Simnikiwe Xabanisa: About the only surprise to emerge from the Africa Cup of Nations was Togo's banning from the next two editions because they had the temerity to withdraw from the tournament after their bus was shot at by Angolan separatists.
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Alex Parker: In bad movies there is usually a fight scene in which the director, in an attempt to instil a little drama into artless bludgeoning, will direct the fight so that at one point it looks like the hero might lose his great pugilistic battle.
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Carlos Amato: Reading about the John Terry sex scandal yesterday, I had two thoughts. The first: "Why am I reading this crap?" The second: "If only Aaron Mokoena would get caught bonking a team-mate's girlfriend!"
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Julia Beffon: At the end of the Winter X-Games on ESPN on Sunday, presenter Sal Masekela - son of South African music legend Hugh - said the Winter Olympics wouldn't be able to match the Aspen extravaganza.
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Mike Moon: For anyone having a midlife crisis - or even an earlyish or late-ish life one, fretting that one's glory days are slipping away - here's a tale of hope and inspiration.
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De Jongh Borchardt, an employee of the SA Rugby communications department, was a little worried about going on air when he was contacted by a rural radio station last Monday.
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BBK: News that John Terry has joined International Bonkers United - think Joost, Tiger and, of course, The Prez - left Fabio Capello in a captaincy conundrum.
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Archie Henderson: This is hard, but it's time to say goodbye to Newlands.
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Aspasia Karras: Open this week's Financial Times magazine, and you will see a lovely double page advert on Parliament. The neoclassical façade gleams hopefully against an intensely blue Cape sky. It's a sight I know well.
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Leonard Carr: THE way in which you listen and respond to others reveals an early, fundamental choice you have made and continue to act upon.
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Nica Cornell: The background on my computer screen is a picture of me holding hands with three of my friends. We are standing in the ocean smiling.
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Neil Pendock: A famous Sandton eatery is mean with H20, but free with a pioneering wine
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Caspar Greeff: I was walking in a magical forest, a jewel in the heart of Cape Town. Tall Yellowwoods whispered in the wind. Murmuring rivers were the colour of whisky. Wild geraniums smelt of honey and coffee.
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Phumla Matjila: "Another child?" Of course, another child. Why were many of you so shocked when our sister newspaper, The Sunday Times, broke the story about President Jacob Zuma's love child?
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