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The Ranter's Guide To South Africa - A Handbook For Hotheads Windbags And Demagogues - cover

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The Ranter's Guide To South Africa - A Handbook For Hotheads Windbags And Demagogues

Bryan Rostron

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers

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Summary

Ever wondered what waffle like 'accountability', 'site of contestation' or 'The National Democratic Revolution' really means? Here, in an irreverent nutshell, is your answer. The Ranter's Guide to South Africa pinpoints and defines some of the most overused and abused words, acronyms, piffle and jargon that noisily bamboozle our daily life. It is a satirical dictionary for our times, encompassing politics, business, culture, sport, history and that relentless, buzzing swarm of clichés that assault us every day. At last, comic relief is at hand in this indispensible A-Z digest with its short and sharp definitions that will puncture the bombast, bias and rampant populism circulating on all sides. Keep this subversive manual close by, it could save your sanity ...
Available since: 10/16/2012.

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