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a-ha’s “Take On Me”, played by North Korean accordion group

Incoming from Jacques: In case you’ve never encountered this. I’m told by a friend-of-a-friend on FB that: “Apparently a member of a-ha went there (cant remember why) and took a CD. Within three days the group came up with this arrangement. They had no sheet music or anything other than the CD to work off.” Obviously, I haven’t [...]

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DPRK

Off to have some more tests done today as the local medical profession charges me exorbitant rates to find out why I’m feeling so crappy (although I think we may be getting somewhere now). So I’ll leave you with this collection of photos from Inside North Korea: Earlier this year, David Guttenfelder, chief Asia photographer for the Associated [...]

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Doubling up

After the huge success of the opening football match at the Cape Town Stadium, the next test comes tomorrow when the crowd limit is doubled from the 20,000 that watched the football to 40,000 for the Stormers v Boland rugby clash. And while they are testing the stadium for World Cup readiness, I am going to [...]

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