Category Archives: in the news

Fishhoek Shark Attack 2

By 6000 | 6000 | September 28, 2011

What will the Daily Mail say this time? Today’s attack took place off Clovelly beach – one of our favourite places to play. Early reports suggest that the victim was a 44 year old male who either ignored warnings not to venture into the water (a shark had been spotted earlier in the morning) or [...]

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Game Over?

By 6000 | 6000 | September 26, 2011

Did you know that the world was due to end yesterday? Being that the country of New Zealand is some few hours ahead of us here in SA, they’re already working their way into the early hours of tomorrow morning, and tomorrow being the 27th September, I think that we can call BS on the [...]

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Fed up

By 6000 | 6000 | September 15, 2011

I remarked the other day that recently, SA politics has become depressingly depressing. Far too much foolishness and sabre-rattling from individuals elected to serve the population. Far too much emphasis on race and racism, sex and sexism, this-ism and that-ism. Far too much jumping to conclusions. Far too little actually sitting down, talking to each [...]

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It’s all kicking off…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2011

Ah. The perils of supporting England in the Rugby World Cup. Actually, there really aren’t very many of them. It isn’t that important to me: after all, this is just rugby, it’s not football. But there’s always someone that suggests that because I’ve moved to SA, I must support the Boks. Yeah right, because when [...]

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“BraaiDay” song set to take SA by storm

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2011

Yeah, yeah – whatever. IMHO, this is amusing and deserves more exposure so I am exposing it. Not that anyone outside the Republic will understand the nuances of the song, but so what? Herewith “Derick Watts and the Sunday Blues” [sic] and their rendition of Braaiday:   Of course, “Braai Day” is actually held each year [...]

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