Posts Tagged Africa

23 April 2008 @ 6pm

Rights, Not Guns for Zimbabwe

Please take a minute out of your day to sign this petition. Perhaps you can take an extra minute to then spread the word as well.
Dockworkers in South Africa have blocked a Chinese arms boat from reaching Zimbabwe… but the crackdown continues. As the ship moves up the Southern African coast looking for a new […]

5 March 2008 @ 12am

chuffed! sa blog awards

I am so very chuffed to be nominated (twice!) in the SA Blog Awards 2008. This site has been nominated in the Best Overseas South African Blog category, and Apparently Nothing (my photoblog) has been nominated in the Best SA Photographic Blog category. To those who nominated either site - thank you:) Seriously! This has […]

17 February 2008 @ 12am

Play Big

Mandela is an exceptional man. I won’t go into all the whys, but I would recommend reading his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Brilliant, heart-breaking, infuriating, inspiring. In his 1994 inaugural speech, he said the following:
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around […]

30 January 2008 @ 2am

hello perspective

I really am at a loss for words right now with everything going on in Kenya. It seems all too familiar and I wonder how it is possible that such things can be repeated so frequently. Don’t we ever learn? The same people that promised to never let it happen again, are letting it happen […]

19 December 2007 @ 11am

Sad…

It is a sad, sad day for me as a South African. Zuma has now been elected as president of the ANC, which means he will be the SA president in 2009. The ANC holds the vast majority of votes each election and it’s no mystery that they will continue to govern South Africa. […]

← Back to Home