November 19th, 2009 — South Africa, Winter
The weather is miserable in South Africa, and has been for the past week. After spending the whole Saturday tidying my cupboard, and packing away my winter clothes, I had to pull them all out this week!
Its raining, the wind is blowing, and its flippin cold! Typical winter in Cape Town, only I’m in Gauteng – and its not supposed to be winter!
Though this weather brings back incredible memories from my time in the UK, it also brings a nostalgia with it which makes me realize how quickly time runs out, which is sad.
I took some photo’s to show you how gloomy it is outside.
September 14th, 2009 — Celebrity Gossip, Movies, News, Technology, people
Lately it seems that South Africa is getting a lot of international attention. Caster Semenya, Winston the homing pigeon, and District 9…
It started off with Caster Semenya’s gender conspiracy. As most of us know by now the majority of opinions now believe that “she” is a hermaphrodite… I don’t have much on an opinion about whether or not a person like this should be allowed to compete. Yes, I guess it is not fair toward female competitors, but keep in mind that this is still a person – who did not ASK to be born this way. I think we should just try to keep this in mind, and search for the little bit of humaneness which still remains in us today. Read more @ The Guardian
Winston the homing pigeon got a short 2nd place (in my books in any case), where he beat the speed of Telkom’s ADSL… (No surprise here 
) By the time that Winston had delivered the data card & the data had been downloaded, the Telkom download had progressed a mere 4%!! Aargh, South Africans cannot WAIT for a better connection!! Read more @ Daily Mail
And then lastly, but not least; District 9 – the very popular movie which was shot in South Africa, with a South African director, but which was also shown in the States. I’ve heard very good reviews about this, alas, I haven’t watched it myself. I’ll be sure to write a short review as soon as I have seen it! Read more @ District 9 – ABC News
March 10th, 2009 — Interesting Facts, News, South Africa
A cooler box was found buried yesterday, with R20 and R50 notes, to an estimated value of R1.5 million!!
The discovery was made by a construction worker yesterday (9 March 2009), which he initially thought was a bomb, but actually contained cash.
The construction worker intended digging a six-metre hole for a drainage system in Edenvale when he found a medium-sized cooler box buried deep down,” said Ekhuruleni Metro Police spokesman Kobeli G Mokheseng.
I wonder what I’d have done if I found something like that? And I wonder, if that guy had the guts to open the cooler box, would he have kept the money, or notified the police?
I’d have been extremely tempted to keep the money had I found it!! Though I’m not sure if I would be able to live with my conscience, or the permanent fear of being caught out.
See News Article: Sowetan
September 4th, 2008 — News
The topic of gender equality has been heavily debated in the past few years, maybe even decades. Women have demanded to be treated the same as men, with the same rights, and benefits. Still women had to be protected against men abusing and raping them. Four women in South Africa, are making sure that its no longer women only seeking the protection.
Four unknown women in South Africa are wanted for apparently raping and robbing male hitch-hikers in the Rustenburg area. According to the reports, these women offer to give male hitch-hikers a lift. Once in their vehicle they force the guy to take some kind of “spiked” drink, and then rape and rob him.
I’m not quite sure what to make of this? Why would women want to rape men? I guess it could be some kind of revenge plot, but still I’m unsure about their motives.
Source: IOL
February 26th, 2008 — Humor, South Africa
Just something amusing for those of you who are from South Africa. I found this picture really funny. Especially how the lions’ faces are manipulated to portrait Jackie Selebi & Jacob Zuma…
January 24th, 2008 — Dizzy Dee, News, Parenting, South Africa
Every now and again one person in society shocks people around them so much, that they literally don’t know what to say. There’s a stunned silence, and then suddenly people start getting their opinions together and then lash out at that person.
We’re probably all like that: If we hear of something, or see something that is totally against everything we believe in, we don’t keep quiet. We fight. We will do everything in our power stop this person, or convince them that they’re in the wrong.
For the first time today, I read about Mr.Fayzal Mahamed’s weird philosophy. (Please be warned that link is for adults only in my opinion.) This man from Johannesburg, South Africa has written on various blogs and forums why exactly it is he masturbates his son who suffers from severe cerebral palsy. To me this is just so sick. I feel that this poor child should be moved to place where he can be cared for in a decent legal way, and the time spent with his father should be monitored by someone. I can’t believe that people are actually justifying this act! This is nothing less than rape!!
