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Frontline Fellowship: Lying for Jesus

Posted May 11, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

These 100 students will no doubt undergo rigorous training in hyperbole, hysteria and deception.

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Varsity – reporting on the blasphemy debate

Posted May 5, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

Peter Hammond is almost certainly not misquoted in saying that the students who sold Sax Appeal are “drunken layabouts and transvestite-dressed representatives of UCT”.

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The blasphemy debate debacle

Posted April 29, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

The debate on free-speech, blasphemy and the Sax Appeal controversy, scheduled for April 29th between Tauriq Moosa, Jacques Rousseau and Peter Hammond has been cancelled.

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