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EDITOR'S COMMENT
October 14, 2020
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way...
August 24, 2020
For the first time, recently, political commentators are starting to seriously suggest the demise of...
August 6, 2020
Let's not be Pollyannas about this virus crisis. Coronavirus, and the effects it has forced...
June 25, 2020
With everybody by now sick to the back teeth of the 'virus and its associated...
THE BACK PAGE, BY BLOMMETJIE
October 14, 2020
Meet Usain Bolt, the tortoise
Trundling up a fence-line in one of my fields earlier this year I spotted a...
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August 24, 2020
Lockdown criminals (not the ANC…)
At last! Mirabile dictu (that's y'r actual Latin for “wond'rous to relate”) our President retrieved...
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August 6, 2020
The next big idea
Twenty-odd years ago, just at the time that this magazine started up, the big thing...
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Blog Posts
October 13, 2020
The challenge of climate change has produced a whole new vocabulary of jargon ~ terms...
October 8, 2020
Leave about 5cm of stem. Preserving one’s own produce gives one the most satisfying sense...
September 30, 2020
So you have finally been able to move to that smallholding that you have been...
September 16, 2020
So far there is little sign of rain in Gauteng this spring. However, the weather...
September 10, 2020
How’s your compost heap looking after our dry Gauteng winter? Most problems in a compost...
August 31, 2020
It’s Spring Day and Arbor Week, so we are encouraged to buy and plant some...
August 24, 2020
A recent discussion on Facebook led us to realise a lot of newer readers won't...
August 20, 2020
Disease epidemics are not limited to humans ~ other animals and plants are also vulnerable...