The people who moan about potholes on Johannesburg's radio phone-in programmes have no sense of perspective.

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They said that Nick Clegg had taken part in a number of phone-in programmes for the radio station.

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Following the trend of recent elections the politicians pitched their campaigns and press conferences with TV and radio in mind, and the relatively new innovation of phone-in programmes also made an impression.

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