Author: Busisiwe Hoho

In 1973 the sociologist, Stanley Cohen, published an influential book, Folk Devils and Moral Panics. The latter involves triggering acute public anxiety through the exaggerated and distorted claims about some event, individuals or groups who are referred to as folk devils.

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Media professionals and a few politicians have expressed horror at Wednesday’s heavy-handed arrest of a journalist in Johannesburg.

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Jenny Brand will be playing the clarinet in the Juan, Mariel and Friends concert on Tuesday 17 August. Grocott’s Mail put some quick questions to her to fi nd out just how she makes music.

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“Science is ayoba,” said the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor at the launch of National Science Week (NSW) at the University of Fort Hare in Alice last week.

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