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The agreements are the basis on which Eskom, and parts of President Zuma’s government have been proceeding in a bid to procure 9 600MW of nuclear energy, at a whopping cost of R1 trillion. To put this cash in perspective, think that SA’s entire annual GDP is about R4 trillion. So imagine spending one entire quarter on electricity SA will apparently will not need until 2037, twenty years from now.

uDigiri isiXhosa

We've all perhaps heard about the recent feat by Hleze Kunju, the first Rhodes University student to write an entire PhD thesis in isiXhosa. The good man, whose thesis looks at how the local language has been kept from dying in a small diasporic community in Mbembesi, Zimbabwe, has been lionised all over, including BBC's Focus in Africa programme. Not to be outdone, 23-year old Musawenkhosi Sourambe became the youngest person to receive a PhD (in Industrial Psychology) at North West. And they said scholarship is dead!

Which Wall?

In the US, President Donald Trump has had his umpteenth campaign promise upended by realpolitik. The great disrupter promised his 60 million supporters that he would erect a beautiful wall along the 3