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The pres must understand that, with women, your timing is everything.(News)

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From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
Date: 20070812
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In a fine column, in which she emerged from her lair breathing fire and brimstone, the learned editor of a certain weekly has declared that the president's firing of Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, the erstwhile deputy matron, was "vintage Machiavellian Mbeki".

Sorry, ma'am, wrong on that particular count. No cigar, no free aspirin.

Let's leave aside the small problem that "Machiavellian" has little to do with Niccolo Machiavelli and his works, just as modern "Platonic love" has little to do with what Plato actually wrote.

Let us accept for the nonce the modern ...

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