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29 May
Letters

An Open Letter to President Jacob Zuma

  • May 29, 2013
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 2 comments
Dear #1, Do you mind if I call you Number One? It has the ring of victory to it. Oh sure, it also has ablutionary connotations, but you won’t find anyone in my circle of friends saying things like, “...

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19 Mar
Letters

An Open Letter to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

  • March 19, 2013
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 4 comments
Dear Sir or Madam, Forgive me for I know not whether you are a sir or a madam. For all I know, you are both. If you are indeed a hermaphrodite or even a transsexual who dreams of one day undergoing g...

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21 Jan
Columns

An Open Letter to President Jacob Zuma

  • January 21, 2013
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
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Dear Msholozi, I am a huge fan of yours and an even bigger supporter of the ANC, that glorious revolutionary movement to which I would dearly love to belong. Since you are the party’s number one memb...

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06 Jan
Columns

Looking for a Sign in 2013? Have You Checked Uranus?

  • January 6, 2013
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 4 comments
After a close encounter with a celestial body on New Year’s Eve, I had an epiphany so powerful that I had to go home and change my broeks. It was downhill from then on. All indications are that 2013 ...

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30 Dec
Columns

Up Yours, 2012

  • December 30, 2012
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 2 comments
It has been such a fabulous year. My mother died, Brenda ran off and shagged a welder in Hermanus and the appalling Jacob Zuma is with us for the next seven years. I can hardly wait to see what 2013 ...

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16 Dec
Columns

It’s Blood River All Over Again

  • December 16, 2012
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 2 comments
Today, 174 years ago, the Voortrekkers defeated a Zulu army at the Battle of Blood River. And today, the Boers and the Zulus will join forces to defeat me at the Battle of Gateway Shopping Centre. Th...

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25 Nov
Columns

Kissing Cousins And Strip Mines

  • November 25, 2012
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 1 comment
I was going to write about politics this week but the moment I typed the word “Mangaung”, I projectile vomited. I tried again and again and each time I lost more and more of my lunch. The sound I ma...

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18 Nov
Columns

The Whine Route

  • November 18, 2012
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
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I stand in solidarity with the striking grape-pickers of the Western Cape because I, too, was once a picker of grapes. Not here, of course. Our wine farms would never hire white pickers, especially no...

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14 Oct
Columns

Misanthropy Is The Life For Me

  • October 14, 2012
  • By author-avatar Ben Trovato
  • 3 comments
Wednesday started well enough with a near-drowning experience at North Beach and a few mugs of electric tea with the legendary lawyer Psycho Syd Taverner, followed by an unexpected nap and a frighteni...

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