Des Erasmus
Journalist at Freelance
Christian; wife to the brilliant @JonathanErasmus; journalist; sea lover. Frequent abuser of semi colons. Calling a spade a TLB since birth.
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6 days ago |
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Mandisa Nyathi
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1 week ago |
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Michael Walsh
Last week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Nasser Bourita, the Moroccan foreign minister. At the meeting, Rubio reaffirmed the commitment of the Trump administration to negotiating “a mutually acceptable solution” for Western Sahara using the framework articulated in the Autonomy Proposal. The political status of Western Sahara remains the subject of considerable debate. Prior to 2020, the US recognised Western Sahara as a dependent state or area of special sovereignty.
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1 week ago |
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Lyse Comins
South Africa’s agricultural and alcoholic beverage sectors will be hit by a double whammy affecting production and sales if a controversial 0.5 percentage point increase in VAT kicks in on 1 May, along with a 6.75% excise duty hike on alcoholic beverages.
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1 week ago |
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Melody Emmett
Jacana’s new imprint — Rock the Boat — is based on a crowdfunding model in which authors and publishers share responsibility for the publication of South African memoir and biography. Publishers across the world are constrained by the soaring costs of paper, together with a constricted market, which makes it increasingly difficult for them to accept manuscripts. Booksellers, in the meantime, are focusing more on bestsellers and catering for books with a predictable market.
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1 week ago |
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Rodney Ghobril
When I was a young man, I was given a priceless gift by someone — a lens through which I could understand my own interactions with the world. The person in question, a mental health professional and a good friend, did tell me that he had cribbed it off of one of his clients but it was so good that he had added it to his bag of treatment tools. The lens was as such … The people of the world can be very loosely divided into two groups: Those who have an “ethnic” background and those who don’t.
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