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Comment #1779576
>Most of the population has no credit history and those who do use credit sparingly and find it hard to get I don't agree with you here. The entire furniture retail industry is bas…
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Comment #1779401
South Africa's ranking is likely to fall in the next survey. There have been recently been well publicised cases where company directors have been fraudulently replaced at CIPRO, t…
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Comment #1763775
>Paul Graham wrote a while ago about the "Trouble with Segway" From the linked article: "But when he rides the Segwell, they shout abuse from their cars: "Too lazy to walk, ya fuck…
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Comment #1666743
Regarding class sizes, I refer you to the recent news about Gates Foundation findings regarding class size, versus teacher quality. Large numbers of poor/mediocre teachers and smal…
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Comment #1666449
>But the problem is that we do not need the best teachers in the world, we need a lot of teachers. A good teacher in a class of 40 doesn’t help a thing. The conventional wisdom on …
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Comment #1663375
Regarding the consolidation of universities, I wouldn't take Zuma too seriously (I have to wonder he was motivated to say that by individuals who lost power through the consolidati…
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Comment #1662581
Your rant doesn't mention that benign-sounding "separate development and rule for all ethnic and cultural groups" under Apartheid forced blacks onto 13% of the land, even though th…