Month: January 2016

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Book Review: Opposite Mandela

Title: Opposite Mandela: Encounters with South Africa’s Icon Author: Tony Leon Publishers: Jonathan Ball By Reginald Ntomba A few days before Tony Leon checked into hospital for an operation, he had criticised the South African government at one of his rallies. President Mandela was annoyed and dismissed him as one of the ‘Mickey Mouse parties’. […]

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Quotes from Obama’s SOTU

I picked a few quotes from President Obama’s State of the Union Address. “A better politics doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything. This is a big country — different regions, different attitudes, different interests. But democracy does require basic bonds of trust between its citizens. It doesn’t work if we think the people […]