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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: February 2013

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Saturday, February 23, 2013. This appeared as my regular column in Afrikaans in the newspaper Beeld on 23 February 2013 in South Africa. I think it could have been Ian Fleming who said: “Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends”. Indeed. A horse can be quite frightening. The thing is, in our new iWhine Age, horses are not general means of transport any more. This hidden meat, whi...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: October 2012

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Monday, October 15, 2012. True freedom has no need for guards. This appeared as a column in South Africa on 29 September in the Johannesburg newspaper Beeld. At the end it relates to the murder in a restaurant of ex SA boxing champion Corrie Sanders. This particular Letter from Britain comes to you from Los Angeles where, until recently, for $250 000 at the shop of the Canadian designer Dussault,. Like C...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: November 2012

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Wednesday, November 7, 2012. If it’s trepanation don’t rescue me. This appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Beeld in Afrikaans on 27 October 2012. Like a visiting knight from Britain without a horse I came to the rescue of a situation this month at Sun City, a Las Vegas-style complex in the bush in South Africa. Referring to the Duckworth-Lewis method used in calculating a result for a rain-interrupted...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: July 2013

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. This appeared as part of my regular column in the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld in Johannesburg on 27 April 2013. Lies are often just bent truths. Truths are never bent lies. The universe does not exist of black holes only and neither of white light on its own. It is like Nixon’s music not bent but together. Okay, unless you are an Einstein nit-picker. 8220;Well, the Tommies chased ...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: The proliferation of weapons of mass wishes — or why Craig wishes that his get-well wishes could just end

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. The proliferation of weapons of mass wishes — or why Craig wishes that his get-well wishes could just end. This appeared on 25 January 2013 as a column in the South African newspaper Beeld. The South African writer Langenhoven (1873-1932) once said that only hardworking horses become exhausted. I mention these things because I noticed how, during the last festive season, the...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: Nkandla is not exactly an African Chequers

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Saturday, December 15, 2012. Nkandla is not exactly an African Chequers. This appeared as a column in the Johannesburg Afrikaans newspaper Beeld on 24 November 2012. Winston Churchill once said: “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”. Zuma’s tired Nkandla home has no golf course like that of Chequers where ex-President Bill Clinton once interrupted himself by scaling a low fenc...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: Culinary horse-trading

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Saturday, February 23, 2013. This appeared as my regular column in Afrikaans in the newspaper Beeld on 23 February 2013 in South Africa. I think it could have been Ian Fleming who said: “Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends”. Indeed. A horse can be quite frightening. The thing is, in our new iWhine Age, horses are not general means of transport any more. This hidden meat, whi...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: The piano

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. This appeared as part of my regular column in the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld in Johannesburg on 27 April 2013. Lies are often just bent truths. Truths are never bent lies. The universe does not exist of black holes only and neither of white light on its own. It is like Nixon’s music not bent but together. Okay, unless you are an Einstein nit-picker. 8220;Well, the Tommies chased ...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: April 2012

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Sunday, April 29, 2012. In 1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee devised civilization’s greatest modern innovation, the Internet. His purpose was to coordinate international research. Now, in 2012, millions of grateful people can post risqu é nude photographs of themselves in internationally compromising situations. For doctoral archaeological research in the year 3072. Don’t call the police. Tina is a dolphin. I loo...

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Letters from Britain and South Africa --- Rhynie Greeff: July 2012

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Letters from Britain and South Africa - - Rhynie Greeff. Thought droppings on the state of the world. Saturday, July 28, 2012. The Olympic 100 metres for men: just too short for a tipple. This was published as a column in Beeld newspaper, Johannesburg, South Africa on 28 July 2012. London 2012 is digitally professional. Attentive readers will surely now ask: But what would have appeared on Facebook and Twitter during. Hile I was with the team, not one of 31 players contracted venereal disease.”. 8221; To...