Category Archives: this is south africa

Semenya has ‘no womb or ovaries’

By 6000 | 6000 | September 10, 2009

Australia’s Daily Telegraph is reporting (or will be, tomorrow) that it knows the results of Caster Semenya’s gender tests and if their reporting is correct, then it doesn’t look good for Julius Malema’s “Golden Girl”: WORLD athletics is in crisis over the gender of Caster Semenya after tests revealed the South African world champion has no [...]

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They (we) hate us (them) for what we (they) did to them (us)

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2009

Following allegations from his wife that he only married her to stay in Canada, the Brandon Huntley saga rumbles on, with new allegations surfacing today that the “white” man that “blacks” love to hate may not actually be “white” at all. Which make his ongoing allegations that black people attack him simply because he is [...]

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Moody Mountain

By 6000 | 6000 | September 8, 2009

Yes, Spring is supposed to have sprung, and indeed it may be happily bouncing around the rest of South Africa, but the Cape coast remains distinctly wintery. A delectable cocktail of 13°C, strong winds and heavy showers is forecast for today after a hailstorm of note woke the family from its collective slumbers at 3:30 this [...]

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Quick but important…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2009

Having just arrived home after a hellish day, I find that I have a hellish evening in front of me. Although I wanted to blog about Justice Malala’s column in The Times this morning, I have to empty the old study completely this evening so that it can be converted into a playroom for the [...]

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Then and now

By 6000 | 6000 | September 5, 2009

What a difference two years, four months and thirteen days makes (as the song goes) (sort of):         Less golf course, more footy stadium. All the boxes ticked, then. When I was adding yesterday’s photo to my Green Point Stadium Flickr set, I noticed that I had taken one back in April 2007 from almost exactly [...]

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