Between a rock and a hard place
The meaning of the idiom in the headline concerns having to choose between two unattractive options, but I am borrowing […]
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Perspectives Rowland
Perspectives
Requiem for Common Sense
IN these mad and far too politically correct times, common sense seems to have become somehow devalued. Not everyone appears
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Perspectives
Death leads to resurrection
The Scottish poet Edwin Muir once wrote about the crucifixion from an eyewitness’ perspective: “That was the day they killed
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Perspectives
No fooling about April 1 pranks
This week has seen the media once again taking South Africans for a merry ride with all manner of far-fetched
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Other Writers
Forgiving ourselves for hard knocks
By Catherine de Valence Recently someone drove into the back of our car with a big bakkie. I was very
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Perspectives
Humble Ruth’s big influence
It is said that greatness lies in ordinary people doing ordinary things in an extraordinary way. There are perhaps more
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Perspectives
Hark, Harold and other angels
A frequently used English phrase is: “Out of the mouths of babes”, which of course comes from two separate biblical
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Ntabeni Perspectives
Will SA cope with the need for ethics?
They delude themselves, those who think morals and ethics are not going to be a major issue in next month’s
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Liturgy Mass Perspectives
Liturgical Translations Explained
By Bishop Edward Risi –Â Bishop Roche, president of the International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL), addressed the bishops’
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