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79Apartheid and the tapeworm - the assasination of Dr Verwoerd
Fortyfive years ago the man who was almost solely responsible for turning the policy of segregation into the ideology of apartheid was assassinated in the Lower House of the South African Parliament. Dr Verwoerd died on the floor of the House of Assembly, stabbed four times with a knife wielded by a Parliamentary messenger.
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74The day “Mona” went missing – 100 years after La Gioconda was stolen from the Musée du Louvre
The famous "Mona Lisa" was discovered to be missing from its home in the Louvre, Paris, in August 1911. It was recovered after two years. This is the story of how a work of art became an icon.
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81The “Methodist Cathedral” – Commemoration Church in Grahamstown
The neo-Gothic Commemoration Church in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is a remarkable site of memory and devotion for Methodists.
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71Passion - Good Friday in the 21st Century
Reflections on the meaning of Good Friday in the light of a recent death in South Africa.
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84Green pigeons and red berries – a theatre of nature in my garden
Rather uncommon visitors to my suburban garden, green pigeons give a wonderful show amid bright cotoneaster berries.
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77The old pine tree
An old tree inspired some reminiscing about cameras and photographs, poems, trees and Robert Frost.
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79The start of the space race - Yuri Gagarin's 108 minutes in space
12 April is "Yuri's Day" - a celeration of the first human to orbit the earth.
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84Hating and loving – a meditation on attachment and non-attachment
Hating is easy and loving hard - and letting go is perhaps the hardest of all. And there are no guarantees.
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76How to Achieve Personal Growth and Balance V - the life of the spirit
Part Five of this five-part series on personal growth looks at the importance of values, study and meditation.
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