Word nerd, student of ethics
Johannesburg
Joined November 2013
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Super excited that Sunday Times - Zimbabwe Edition is back in Zimbabwe. Grab today's paper and read some of my stories.
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Congrats to Tshidiso Moletsane, the winner of the #STLitAwards22 Fiction Prize for his debut novel, 'Junx'!
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Mignonne Breier's 'Bloody Sunday' has been announced as the winner of the #STLitAwards22 Non-Fiction Prize! Congrats!
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While the lettuce memes are now an international preoccupation, would the same spite be directed at a male leader tossed aside by the British ministerial old boys’ club, asks @deGrootS1. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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@deGrootS1 reflects on all the fuss about SA’s greatest comic export, and why we all lay claim to him. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
OK so I appropriated the moon
Many men love the band Die Antwoord mostly because of the music video in which singer Yolandi bares her bottom out of the back window of a bus, writes @deGrootS1. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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After Britain chickened out of the EU, one might say that anyone having to run the country has a turkey on their hands, writes @deGrootS1. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
This column - in @SundayTimesZA today - has a lot to do with words but not a lot to do with #LizTruss
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A blast from the past, in the spirit of current imperialism v republican debate...
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Literally laughed out loud, at the literary @deGrootS1. “Imagine a world without troikas, apparatchiks, intelligentsia, shamans, samizdat, misinformation, mammoth or sable. Imagine, if you can, a world without vodka.”
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The shortlist for the 2022 Sunday Times Literary Awards, in partnership with @ExclusiveBooks, has been announced! timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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KZN took top honours in the annual competition on August 27. Hilary Biller shares the story behind the search for the best recipe. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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Throw out those welcome mats, people, because they could be taken as a sign for anyone to lawfully enter your home, writes @deGrootS1 timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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Two of the most-looked-up words on Google SA this week were “roadkill” and “scuttlebutt”. We have politicians to thank for both linguistic investigations, writes @deGrootS1. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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When I first read ‘The Mirror and the Light’, I was struck by parallels between the Tudor court of Henry VIII and the tensions within SA’s cabinets and corridors, writes @deGrootS1. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
