Too Many Gaps – Too Much Hurting

One of Jenty’s recent posts inspired me to pay attention to my blog again. She is sad one of her really good friends is emigrating to New Zealand very soon.
I’ve emigrated twice, first from South Africa to the UK and then from the UK to the USA. Ten years ago last month, Jenty [...]

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US Election Day vs 1994 SA Election Day

Today is a day that will go down in history across the world. In case you missed it (as if!), today is the US Election Day, a culmination of an historic electoral process, and possibly the day the US gets their first black president.
Wow! I feel truly privileged to be alive in these times and [...]

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Rest in Peace

Today my heart is sore.
Last night South African crime claimed it’s first victim from my family.
Many of my close friends and family members have been victimized by criminals in South Africa over the last few years:

My mom was car-jacked and held at gun point. Luckily she escaped with her life, purse-less and car-less, [...]

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Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too [...]

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Africa Weeps

Sue’s Arty Farty Musings is a blog I follow on my RSS reader and although I don’t always have time to delve into it, I found I had some time this peaceful Sunday morning.
Her latest work, ‘Africa Weeping‘ is AWESOME!  Check it out.  I want me some   If I could afford it, that [...]

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The State of South African Politics

… is crazy and very sad right now.  This is an awesome account of the current craziness.
I worry about my friends and family left behind.

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