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Marital matters of the GNU

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South Africa’s GNU is having, how should we put it, “relationship issues”. In this edition of Listen Up!, Mark and Tim have a solution: focus on the kids! That would be us, the population. And try not to focus on each other so much; divorce is impossible, so work together and not against each other. Please. Also in this helter-skelter discussion, we talk about a fundamental change in the global stock markets and the fundamentals of satellites.
30 Jun English Explicit South Africa News · News Commentary

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