Moaning Monday seems to be catching. First it was Rambler, then Shayne and now I just can’t help myself. I am absolutely livid!!! I think that MOAN might be a bit of an understatement. It might just turn into a full on rant. I was in a rather good mood this morning, weird considering it [...]
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Or at least they are if the news report on SABS 3 last night was anything to go by! They were doing a piece about Jacob Zuma, but then when are they not doing a piece about him….. The term they used to describe ole’ JayZee was “the President in Waiting, Jacob Zuma” [...]
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It is not often that I write about stuff in the news or politics. Something really has to get me all hot under the collar….. and now something has! South Africa denied the Dalai Lama a visa to enter South Africa. He was invited to be a guest speaker at a peace conference on [...]
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So another day of taxi strikes – and it has finally impacted on my life! I had to hang out my own washing….. Oh the horrors! And it does not stop there, I had to pack away my own dishes, make my own bed and clean the house….. You know, all the stuff that people [...]
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Every day there are stories in our papers about crime. Most of the time you read it, think it is shocking and then go onto the next story, but sometimes there is a story that you read that really hits close to home. Yesterday on the front page of our local paper was one [...]
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There are some things that you just have to watch a couple of times. I am not sure if it because you feel their pain and embarrasement, or you are just glad it is not you. But to have this happen on LIVE TV is not a good way to start your day. I [...]
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Are you a feminist – or do you think you would have been if necessary? I don’t think I am, but then I guess I should thank all the people that came before me and fought for stuff that I now take for granted. However!!! There are some things that really annoy me. [...]
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Ok, once I got started on the Blog Action Day post I thought of something else that has really been bugging me lately. I was going to put it on the same post, but thought it would get too long. I have been looking around and have seen so many street children. And I [...]
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Today is Blog Action Day, and the theme is poverty. I have started this post so many times and then deleted what I had written. What can I write about poverty? Actually there are so many things I could write about it I don’t know where to start, and yet I have not experienced [...]
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