Category: Comment
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Make A Choice: Care-Giver or Granny Beater
South Africa’s best current affairs/magazine tv programme Carte Blanche recently aired a programme on a pensioner in frail care being attacked by their care-giver. The most awful and disturbing footage substantiated the accusations. Now, I have always had a weak spot for elderly people, I am not sure where it…
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Dept of Clutter and Chatter with a Smile (In the main)
That dreaded time has come where I have to renew my driver’s licence. I have already circumvented the grim unhealthy looking eye machines that the Licensing Dept has on offer, by going to an optometrist that will certify your sight levels for you… the next step is to tackle Randburg’s…
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No Military Intervention … Please!
Syria… atrocity after atrocity after atrocity. Does the US have a right to intervene militarily? I think not. I don’t know what the solution is, these kind of events seem to just keep rolling by and if it isn’t Syria it is elsewhere. Humankind is not inspiring a lot of…
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It’s About Dignity For Mandela
We do not know nor can we ever hope to know what it felt like to live without a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin …due to imprisonment for a political will, wish and belief. We do not know how it makes one react, over-react or the anger that it can…
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Where’s the Tolerance for Difference?
A recent article stating that homophobia was on the rise in Africa made me think some.. then some more. I just cannot get my head around why this ‘orientation of difference’ gets up so many people’s noses – and normally all in the name of some higher being! I was…
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Tis a load of Tweet
I like Twitter. I don’t use it to express my own, individual standpoints or rantings (ha ha ha I use my blog for that!) or to impress – but it is fun, harmless. What do I use Twitter for? I use it like a wire service. In the old days…
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Our Greatest Statesman and Legacy of all Time Abused!
Prez Nelson Mandela, a South African icon, a leader of stature and insight, a setter of tone and compromise, a man who transitioned South Africa as peacefully as it could have been done. A man admired globally. Yet the South African Presidency and its creaking minions feel within their rights…
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