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When I was much younger and vastly stupider, I made a snide remark to my father who was engaged in what I thought was a drudgery. He shot me a look that was so at once so gentle and so withering that I have never forgotten it. “And here I thought I was enjoying myself,” he said. This lesson in minding my own damn business was one of the crucial inoculations I received that prevented me from catching the disease of intellectualism. But it was more than that. It also taught me what should have been obvious: we are often...

Man found raping neighbour's goat Posted Mon, 14 Mar 2005 A man was arrested for bestiality after he was found raping his neighbour's goat at a village in Limpopo on Sunday morning, police said. Inspector Ntobeng Phala said the owner of the goat heard the animal crying from the kraal at Zist Village, Ga-Maleboho, about 200km northwest of Polokwane. He went to see what was going on and "came across this man stark naked, busy having sex with one of the goats". Phala said the man was even more shocked to discover the naked man (42) was his nephew and...