April 2010
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Perspectives on South Africa following my recent...
South Africa was my home for the first three decades of my life: you could say a compromised and complex heritage. I have my parents and myself to thank for the hard work that afforded me most of the personal status with which I departed South Africa. Only now, having been in the UK for my fourth decade, can I begin to appreciate the starkness of my formative years spent in an Apartheid ...
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Farewell British Airways
I’ve just returned to the UK shores having flown to South Africa with British Airways who I’ve loyally followed for many years. Not only am I an insecure BA passenger as a result of its industrial action, but worse still, exposure to their shoddy systems has left me firmly resolved to *never* fly BA again. Annoyance 1: After a bleak flight to Johannesburg in Economy a week ago;...
