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House of Truth: SA’s tech future is more like a tech fantasy
The skills. Or rather, the complete and utter lack of them. The vast majority of our graduates come out of university with a piece of paper and zero clue how to do the job they trained for. Practical experience? Nope. Digital fluency? Forget it. There’s a chasm between what the economy needs and what we’re producing. And somehow, we keep acting surprised every year when youth unemployment rises like clockwork.
House of Truth: What does Jesus' death have to do with bunnies and eggs? A deep dive into the pagan roots of Easter
Every year, Christians the world over mark the crucifixion and alleged resurrection of their saviour with an explosive mashup of piety and marshmallow eggs. Somehow, between Gethsemane and Golgotha, the Messiah got tangled up with Peter Cottontail and a fertility goddess.
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The truth of the matter is that white Americans, after having nearly wiped out all the Native Americans, never quite got over the outcome of the Civil War, which made it illegal for one person to own another.
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You can tell that he truly believes, like his pals Errol Musk and Gary Player, that he is saying something original, profound, and important. The tragedy, of course, is that his audience takes his words as gospel truth, scurrying home to warn their friends and family of the rising black menace. Very few of them will ever conduct their own research. If they did, they would quickly recognise that Hersov’s message is little more than a modern repackaging of 19th-century pseudoscience — ideas mainstream about 250 years ago, when European powers needed to justify the violent excesses of slavery and colonialism.