Johnny Clegg is a South African legend. He’s also known as the ‘white zulu’ and for good reason. This is a wonderful remake of one of his old songs, with many prominent SA artists. It’s followed by another SA video, set to Toto’s ‘Africa’ and tries to tell a short story of [...]
20,000 murders a year, people living in fear, bribery and corruption, electricity problems, investors looking elsewhere, skilled people leaving. And a new leader with no moral compass. The list goes on, and it seems that in the last 6 months the bad news has increased dramatically.
South Africa has been an example of reconciliation [...]
Clem Sunter is considered a real guru in South Africa, but also in many other parts of the world. He has fantastic insights and a real global vision. One of my favourite examples of his work is this letter to Dubya, which was published 3 months before 9/11.
South African Reggae Muso was killed during a hijacking while dropping his son off. A huge loss for South Africa, the world and for Reggae.
Informative and interesting overview of the capability and sustainability of Hemp.
Tony Budden of Hemporium, a South African company that specializes in the multifarious products that can be made from hemp, talks about the environmental, nutritional, industrial, social and spiritual benefits of using hemp to provide us with almost all of our everyday products. These range [...]
Staggering. But true, 19,202 people murdered in South Africa from 1/4/06 to 31/3/07 (that’s more than 2 every hour). During the same period 126,558 violent robberies (these are official SAPS crime stats btw). Luckily, there were ‘only’ 52,617 rapes, a 5% decrease.
Let me tell you about ‘Plett‘. Plettenburg Bay (as it was known to only hardcore clutch-plates) is a place of happy memories.
Plett was a guiding mid-year light for us at school. We went to Plett at December too, but the June/July holidays were always Plett time. The surf was solid then and the crowds were [...]
Oregan Hoskins, the head of SA rugby has a new arsehole torn for him by John Robbie. How does a man like this get the top job in SA rugby?!?
What a great story – Oscar Pistorius runs the 200m in under 22 seconds – that’s bliksem vinnig. He had his legs amputated at age 1 after he was born without fibula’s. He candidly states that it’s never stopped him from playing the sports he wanted to play. They include rugby, tennis and water-polo. (check [...]
(Click pic for larger image) There’s no brain-drain in SA, and this proves it – where in the world can you find medical professionals so widely skilled? I challenge you!
“If criminals tata ma-chance they must be prepared to tata ma-bullets – and in this case they took many bullets.” – Gauteng police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo when police shot dead four armed men and wounded six in Soweto after a bank robbery.
“There are two jobs in South Africa that every person in the country [...]
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