In the aftermath of the shooting of a baboon in the Overberg, T. Slabbert writes a passionate indictment of the savagery of human arrogance.
Jean-Marc Vogt discusses enlightenment versus the culture of entitlement that seems to predominate in this country in one post and looks at the mysteries of the impeding end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 in another.
And, as protests rage in Tehran, our Iranian correspondent Kourosh Ziabari takes a look at the post-election upheaval, what’s caused it and how it’s being inflamed.
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