We may be paying a fortune for insurance policies but it doesn't always mean we are actually covered.
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We need CEOs and we need essential workers. Yet, over the last century or so, we have gradually degraded the position of essential workers, while we have greatly elevated the positions of business people (and politicians).
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The brutal truth is that, despite our beautiful Constitution, no woman in our country is truly free, because we perpetually live in fear. Fear of what you, the men, do to us.
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Are we truly a nation of alcoholics or is a serious discussion around giving up the nightly gin and tonic, glasses of wine or cans of braai beer just too much to ask to save a (few thousand) lives?
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Melanie Verwoerd’s father died this past week. She says goodbye to him in this moving tribute.
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As we have seen in America, racism will simmer away until there is one incident too many and it all becomes too much. This can easily happen in South Africa as well.
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As the world is slowly starting to return back to work - have we learned anything? Will we individually and collectively change our lives and if so, how? Perhaps it is time we ask what we want.
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We all have a right to our opinions, but Covid-19 does not give anyone the right to hide behind "scientific" or economic theory to disguise racial stereotyping or callousness.
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Having seen what this virus can do, I can’t bear to think what we will look like as a country when this pandemic spreads amongst the millions of people who have suppressed immune systems.
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