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Legends from a small country: Burglars are a load of rubbish
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Thursday, 30 October 2008. Burglars are a load of rubbish. We all know how creative burglars get in the land of urban legends. But when they begin masquerading as bags of rubbish, isn't it time they hired new strategy consultants? PS: The nei...
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Legends from a small country: Legends of Mandela #2: Rugby legend revived
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Monday, 22 October 2007. Legends of Mandela #2: Rugby legend revived. The Springboks had been invited to a lavish banquet at the castle of one of those aristocratic knights of the realm who regarded himself as a patron of rugby. The Boks ...
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Legends from a small country: Legends of Mandela #1
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Thursday, 04 October 2007. Legends of Mandela #1. On the eve of his retirement from politics in 1999, Nelson Mandela and a charity with which he was associated became the target of a "gravy train" urban legend. In mid-1999, Achmat Dangor.
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Legends from a small country: It's criminal! (or is it?)
http://thoselegends.blogspot.com/2007/11/itscriminal-or-is-it.html
Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Thursday, 08 November 2007. Behind the legends of crimes that never were. Fictional crime fighters like Batman are popular precisely for that reason. But breaking the law for the sake of justice is fraught with peril, so it is little wond...
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Legends from a small country: Legends of Mandela #3: Living legend
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Wednesday, 24 October 2007. Legends of Mandela #3: Living legend. A pop group called the Beatles were greeted in Australia by a screaming mob of 25 000 fans. According to those who knew him in the years after his release, he remained a humble...
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Legends from a small country: Shoes on the line
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Tuesday, 24 August 2010. Shoes on the line. The photo on Page 2 of the Times shows dozens of old shoes hanging from a phone line. Intriguing? Only if you believe in the urban legends. An Associated Press story out of Tucson hoisted up the con...
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Legends from a small country: E-mail scares # 1: Medical
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Wednesday, 10 October 2007. E-mail scares # 1: Medical. These categories will be addressed here shortly, but to start with, here is a sample of AIDS and medical scares:. AIDS and medical scares. Virgins cure AIDS: Young girls are being raped ...
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Legends from a small country: Letter from a Legends cop
http://thoselegends.blogspot.com/2012/11/letter-from-legends-cop.html
Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Sunday, 11 November 2012. Letter from a Legends cop. Letter from Stephen Clark, SAPS Westville (Durban):. In 1990, I read the words, "What is an Urban Legend and where can I buy one? And original story you just told me, and it must. Smoked my...
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Legends from a small country: Hoaxes and legends: the rules
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Legends from a small country. Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global. Tuesday, 09 October 2007. Hoaxes and legends: the rules. How do you tell if a warning you receive by e-mail, fax, SMS, or text is an urban legend? How was South Africa’s great hurricane hoax easily identifiable as an urban legend? 6 If the se...
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