ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ….. I have a school friend called Carol who has lived out of the country since the mid 1970s but has returned often since the 1990s. Recently her mother died. She had been living at a frail care facility down on the southern Cape coast and had been looked after with […]
Read More »A South African story Janine Hobbs from Cotswold Gardens, an excellent 4 star guest house in Saxonwold , sent me this wonderful oh so South African story: Janine writes: Yesterday I took a trip to Nasrec to work out the exact kilometres from my place to Soccer City. Well this mlungu [white person] took the wrong […]
Read More »VUVUZELAS ALLOWED AT WORLD CUP Much of the talk on Radio 702 yesterday focused on the vuvuzelas at the Confederation Cup soccer games and it seems there are polarized opinions of them – people either love `em or hate `em. FIFA’s initial concerns about the vuvuzela (probably influenced as much by their potential for competitive advertising, […]
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