By Alec Hogg
Two global issues of the moment featured this morning – the scourge of Fake News and the rise and rise of English Football.
The Fake News focus relates to the talk I gave yesterday morning as part of the annual FynArts Festival in Hermanus. Click here for the link to the recording. Have a feeling you’ll find it interesting.
___STEADY_PAYWALL___The story on football, from our partners at the Financial Times of London, has a South African connection. The author, mutiple award winning journalist Simon Kuper, was born in Kampala to South African parents. Kuper is regarded as one of the very best sports journalists in the world was raised in Holland and also writes in Dutch.
His Jeppe Boys and Witsie grandfather after whom he was named was a Judge of the SA Supreme Court and leader of the local Jewish community. In March 1963, when the elder Simon Kuper was just 57 years old, he was assassinated – shot through a window by a (still) unknown assailant while sitting in his lounge. A hall at the Oxford Shul and a B’nai B’rith Lodge, both in Johannesburg, are named in his memory.
Sterkte.
Alec
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