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Death of a dancer – and the way we treat our artists

Posted on April 22, 2015August 28, 2018 by Dougie Oakes

ON A chilly Sunday evening in July 2014, more than 500 people watched, transfixed. as an old, beta-format compilation of

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From once a South African to always an Australian – the long journey of Keith Majoos

Posted on February 28, 2012February 29, 2012 by Dougie Oakes

KEITH Majoos is sitting in an apartment less than 100 metres from Surfer’s Corner’ in Muizenberg, near Cape Town, doing

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Promoting SA music … in Australia

Posted on February 15, 2012February 15, 2012 by Dougie Oakes

ABOUT 40 years ago a teenager from one of Cape Town’s southern suburbs sat mesmerized in a local theatre as

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Beware of Governments seeking too much protection in Protection of Information Bills

Posted on September 3, 2011September 3, 2011 by Dougie Oakes

When governments in free countries lose the capacity to govern effectively, they look for scapegoats – and, invariably, one of

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All Black Inside The Rainbow Nation

Posted on August 25, 2011August 25, 2011 by Dougie Oakes

In the early 1980s, I faced the most powerful man in South African rugby across the biggest boardroom table I’d

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Time to flush out the shit-stirrer of Seshego

Posted on August 8, 2011August 8, 2011 by Dougie Oakes

On Monday, 1 August at 6.15pm, I called up the Google Website on my five-year-old Acer laptop, typed in the

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It’s all Greek to this Plato

Posted on July 24, 2011July 25, 2011 by Dougie Oakes

Far too often we let politicians get away with spouting the type of waste product that emerges from a bull’s

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Adjusting my colour

Posted on July 19, 2011July 27, 2011 by Dougie Oakes

The SABC has launched what is likely to be a vociferous television buddy for two of the Western Cape’s most

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Homage to a Hero

Posted on July 11, 2011July 27, 2011 by Dougie Oakes

In the summer of 2003, I was looking for ideas for articles to include in a Reader’s Digest Christmas magazine

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