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Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were written as science fiction in the 1940s. Today, they look increasingly like an early attempt to grapple with a problem we are only beginning to understand. The first law was simple enough: a robot may not injure a human being, or allow a human being to come to…
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There are people whose deaths make us realise how much of our lives they had quietly occupied. Dolly Parton was one of those people. The tributes will rightly celebrate the extraordinary voice, the songs, the films, the rhinestones, the towering blonde hair, the humour, the business empire and the philanthropy. But I don’t think that…
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This week, I found myself sitting for hours in a packed public hospital waiting room. The queue barely moved. Plastic chairs scraped on the floor, babies cried somewhere in the distance, and every few minutes someone would sigh loudly and ask, “Who’s the last one in the line?” It was the kind of scene that…
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Kofifi was a thriving place of light and dark, of hopes and dreams, and ultimately of thwarted lives and loss. And writer, journalist and philosopher Can Themba, fitted right in. Daniel Canodoise Themba, who was born in Pretoria’s Marabastad on 21 June 1924, was a charismatic writer bursting with talent in a country that went…
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