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A little known history of cocaine (Part 4) 27 Aug 2013 | 01:55 pm
For the part three of the series, please click here. In 1906 the US passed the Pure Food and Drugs Act that formally began the regulation of cocaine and the opiates, limiting their use to the medical ...
Let them eat cake 27 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
This morning I crawled off an overnight flight from Paris, gave thanks for unlimited bandwidth, and started scrolling through Twitter. There I found an opinion piece by Peter Delmar on the Times Live ...
Native life in South Africa 26 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
While watching the stories of people’s shacks being flooded in Cape Town’s informal settlements recently, I thought of Sol Plaatje and his manuscript that was published in 1916, Native life in South A...
Mandela: Let’s have less spin doctor and more medical doctor 24 Aug 2013 | 01:41 pm
The African National Congress probably couldn’t care less about the chatter that Nelson Mandela is now a medical zombie, alive but not living. It is widely speculated on social networks that the 95-ye...
Some thoughts on the crisis in Higher Education 24 Aug 2013 | 11:42 am
The recently released Council on Higher Education (CHE) report on the state of higher education in South Africa is ringing alarm bells all over the country at universities, as may be expected, given t...
An inconvenient truth about paedophilia 23 Aug 2013 | 01:36 pm
The busting of a large child-porn ring involving prominent South Africans including a private school headmaster unwraps another sordid layer of our society. It wasn’t difficult to put a name and a fac...
Three scary numbers 22 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Last week I came across three numbers that left me numb[1]. Together they brought home the essence of the climate fix we’re in — and the massive profit margins that are riding on us failing to deal wi...
Why MSF decided to leave Somalia 22 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
By Dr Unni Karunakara Our announcement on August 14 that we were closing all our medical programmes in Somalia sent shockwaves through political and humanitarian communities. It came at a moment when ...
Total Recall and the neverending dream of liberation from oppression 21 Aug 2013 | 01:47 pm
I sometimes wonder whether people have noticed that many movies (as well as novels and short stories, which are not my concern here) thematise the fight for liberation from some or other dictatorial r...
Democracy is coming 20 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
FROM the moment Leonard Cohen entered my life back in 1970, his poetry and his music have profoundly influenced me. They have haunted my conscience, pestered my self-awareness and influenced my writin...
