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Sorry, Cyril, but you ve still mucked it up 14 March 2021 - 00:00
Legend has it that when he was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson used to lock himself in a room and shout and fist-pump to work up a passion for whatever it was he was going to write.
I know the feeling. Before writing a column I pick arguments to find out what I might think about an issue. Locked down, I have had sometimes deliberately to provoke my good-natured and wonderful wife into raising her voice at me.
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Messing with us with a straight face and a smile 14 February 2021 - 00:00
President Cyril Ramaphosa is a genuinely nice guy. He is playful and laughs easily. You cannot say that about many heads of state any where, let alone on our own continent, so we should not scoff at our good fortune.
After listening to his state of the nation speech the other night, however, and hearing nota single new thought or promise other than a sensible decision to press on quickly with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine now that the AstraZeneca product seems not to be as effective against our dominant variant as was originally hoped, I think he’s basically given up trying.