Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
According to Rapport, the woman allegedly featured in the sex tape snorting cocaine and having sex with Joost van der Westhuizen, has spoken out.
Their website gives a sneak peak of their Sunday newspaper exclusive interview with the blonde, tattoo’d woman who video taped her session, with these little tidbits:
- Joost apparently told her that he and Amor has an open marriage. Geewhiz, how many cheating men have used that one!
- His drug of choice is CAT which he carries around. Whatever CAT means…I have no clue.
- She says Joost continued pursuing her, because they never had full blown sex.
- She alleges his mouth and feet stinks. If the first point is true (and I doubt it), then we can see why!
- She fears fears for her life and only came forward because Joost’s people were harrassing her.
More information to follow!
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Tonight between 8.30pm and 9.30pm, we have been asked by Earth Hour (an international movement) to turn off our lights.
The purpose is to bring awareness of the impact our actions is having on the planet.
While the cause is worthwhile, it makes one wonder whether it will impact those who are not already doing their environmental bit.
When I asked a friend whether she will be turning off her lights tonight, she replied that she already turns off all the lights while watching tv at night.
I usually have one light on, only in the room being used. And I do my bit to save energy by turning off the geaser when I’m not home or sleeping. I burn low voltage energy saving lamps and haven’t taken a bath in years! (I shower!)
I also eat as much organic local fresh food as possible, walk from work many days and take public transport whenever I can.
As far as I’m concerned, I am always aware of my impact on the planet, one hour tonight is not going to make any difference to the way I live my life.
If it makes someone else more aware, then more power to them, but don’t expect me to sign up on websites like Earth Hour’s local one. I absolutely hate fads and gimmicks.
Eskom has probably done more to make us aware of energy than any environmental documentary or preaching has ever done.
It woke me up for sure.
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Previously I could only imagine how Archbishop Desmond Tutu must have annoyed the hell out of the apartheid government. Now I have an idea how persistent and grating he can get.
The odd thing about the Dalai Lama’s visa is that had the government given him one, he would have come and gone in 2 days. A photo photo opportunity here and there, a news clip or two and the whole thing would have been over and done with.
We would not have been subjected to news bulletin after news bulletin with everyone and their dog giving their two cents worth.
Personally, I have no feelings one way or the other about the Dalai Lama or any of the other Nobel Peace Laureates, except Nelson Mandela – the rest of the four invitees are nothing other than politicians in my opinion. But people have the right to gather and have their conferences.
What does a peace conference have to do with the Soccer World Cup in 2010 though?
Ironically the same people who talk about not mixing politics with sport are happy to protest the Dalai Lama’s non invitation.
Seriously, the aftermath of a stupid decision not to give the visa is a lot worse than had that peace conference taken place. Most of us would not even have been aware of it.
Now Archbishop Tutu has found a new soap box to climb on and agitate.
For heaven’s sake Foreign Affairs, give the Dalai Lama his visa so we can go back to Helen Zille and Julius Malema taking over the front pages.
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
My Mitchell’s Plain aunty and I are again not on speaking terms.
It’s been happening every four or five years since the elections in 1994!
Before that we had a lovely relationship – my mother took me kicking and screaming to high tea – with a clean dress, fierce curls in my hair and a sullen look (according to my mother)on a Sunday afternoon to that last colonial outpost in Africa, Westridge Mitchell’s Plain.
For this trouble I regaled them with my political opinion on their hero Allan Hendrickse – hey that swim in the ocean was easy pickings.
My aunty saw the merits of the Labour Party, by the way. After all, they said, we must look after our own.
Post 1994, with memories of Sunday’s in Mitchell’s Plain, a vote and an acquired taste for sweet tea, I willingly visited my aunties.
Their stance had changed too. No longer did they care about the long defunct Labour Party. Instead their heart belonged with FW De Klerk, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Pieter Marais and the National Party.
But what about Nelson Mandela, I asked them?
He will only look after his own, they replied.
After lengthy debates over cups of tea and plates of fancy cakes, we argued over the merits of our chosen parties. Neither side giving an inch.
Eventually we would say our goodbyes and not see each other until Christmas, when no one was allowed to speak politics, not even me.
This year of course there is no National Party and the Independent Democratics have not been looking after their own.
The aunties have been eyeing Helen Zille and the DA with delight, because as she likes to remind me: they are not black.
After yesterday’s by-election in Mitchells’ Plain, guess who will not be visiting with the aunty until after 22 April.
She can keep her pickled snoek on Good Friday! I’m doing the Two Oceans anyway!
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
There is never a dull moment in this town and this time it has nothing to do with our delusional, condescending mayor (who I offered to Jo’burg without any success – though I won’t give up trying!).
An apparently unknown 25 year old actor named Jack Miller is leader of a political party called the Cape Party. One of their aims is to get the Cape to secede from South Africa and form an independent state!
This is the self same party who had their website hacked recently. (Who hacks a website of a party we never even heard of?)
Miller, probably an out of work actor, saw a gap to showcase his talents locally instead of featuring in German adverts and offered is services as leader of the Cape Party.
Whether the Cape Party has merit or not, it makes one wonder how they intend to get famously apathetic Capetonians to do anything, much less secede.
And it’s not as if we don’t live in our own piece of paradise, unaware of the rest of South Africa.
The only time we even know there are other provinces is when they come down to Newlands to play cricket or rugby.
Oh and when we try to see around weather reporters when they stand bang in front of our province at night. I won’t even watch e-tv’s weather report, because it takes too long to get to the Cape.
Perhaps the Cape Party needs another platform, because come World Cup time I will not be shouting for the Stormers and Cape Cobras instead of the Springboks and Proteas.
For the rest, we are all but seceded from the rest of the country anyway.
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