Archive for April, 2009
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
After trying unsuccesfully to get pregnant for a second time, Sarah Jessica Parker (of Sex and the City fame) and her husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls via a surrogate.
Both actors have confirmed the pregnancy.
Sarah Jessica is 44 years old and her husband 47. They also have a son James who is 6 years old.
Since previous attempts at getting pregnant failed, the couple decided to instead use an unnamed surrogate to give birthd to their babies.
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
After scoring just 18 runs in his first three matches, South African captain and Rajastan Royals player Graeme Smith scored 44 not out, tonight.
With the brilliant Yusuf Pathan who scored 62 runs (off only 30 balls), Smith put together a match winning partnership at Supersport Park.
The defending champions won (for the second time in this IPL T20 series) with 5 wickets after scoring the required 143 runs. Their win leaves them 4th on the log, after 5 matches.
The leading team this year is the Deccan Chargers (unbeaten after 4 matches) whose openers Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs have blown away all in their wake, backed up by good bowling from RP Singh.
Leading batsman in the series so far is Matthew Hayden (Chennai Kings). Hayden scored 215 runs so far in his 4 matches with an average of 53.8.
South African bad boy of cricket Herschelle Gibbs (Deccan Chargers) is in second place with 183 runs with an average of 91.5, joined in 5th place by team mate Adam Gilchrist who scored 163 (average 40.8).
Another South African AB de Villiers (Delhi Daredevils) is 3rd on the batting list having scored 105 runs in a previous match. He scored 176 in total with an average of 88.
So far the IPL’s most expensive guys Kevin Pietersen and injured Andrew Flintoff have not made much of an impact on the tournament.
With a month left, the most exciting cricket still lies ahead!
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Autumn is barely half-way, but winter has already made itself known in Cape Town, as the IPL T20 cricket fraternity have discovered.
Weather forecasters are reporting normal rain from now to June and heavier rain than usual in July and August.
Today at 5.30pm when I arrived home from work, it was already nearly dark – meaning I had to turn on a light!
Not good for my energy saving endeavours!
Winter is not my friend. It makes me want to hibernate and sleep for 3 months. It makes me want to seek out little slivers of sunshine whereever I can find it for a small dose of Vitamin D!
My dream is to win the lotto (which I hardly ever play) and live 6 months in Cape Town and 6 months on some Caribbean island.
A girl can only dream.
Meanwhile this week we’re expecting more rain – yuck! What can you do though?
Winter is here to stay until well into October!
At least we know summer will make its appearance again…eventually!
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
In South Africa we live in a society where most people still live in racially demarcated areas, without any sign that things are going to change anytime soon.
During elections we pretty much voted along racial lines, but no one is allowed to say it out loud.
Blacks mostly voted ANC and whites and coloureds mostly voted DA. This is an indisputable fact.
We see the country through the lenses we exist in.
So why are we afraid to admit it in this country when it is so obvious that it exists?
When I mention race on this blog, I’m asked why I am obsessed with race.
Probably because we live in a country where race relations is like the Emperor with his New Clothes.
We pretend that the playing field is level, even when we see that black children mostly go home to shacks and white children go home to a brick house.
Even those born after 1994 – the supposed magical year.
Saturday I stood in a long line in Nedbank while two men who were being condescending and probably not even realising it, while describing Patricia de Lille and Lynn Brown being smart and suggesting they should align with the DA.
How do they know that de Lille and Brown are any smarter than Zuma and Rasool? What makes these two women smart?
Because they don’t criticise the DA? Because de Lille criticises the ANC? Because Lynn Brown quietly does her thing?
Patricia de Lille had just over 100 000 people vote for in this elections…she can’t be that smart and for all her barking, we’ve yet to see some bite.
Then Mrs Helen Zille herself yesterday very generously mentions that other parties also have competent people in their ranks that she can use in her provincial cabinet.
As if competent people don’t come in all shapes, sizes and political affiliations! Just because someone doesn’t agree with you, doesn’t make them stupid.
The media are certainly trying to ignore racial differences and paper over it, but the fact is it exists.
And probably will for years to come because we can all pretend to see each other as equals, until we go into that voting booth.
Funny enough, every political analyst and his/her friend is giving advice to Zuma on how to run the country, but no one is giving Zille any tips on how to run the province.
It’s not as if either of them have run a province or country before.
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
During the elections some commenters on this blog asked me what I would do if Helen Zille and the DA won the Western Cape provincial elections.
Well, I kicked my imaginary cat – twice…and then moved on.
Even though I don’t think Mrs Zille is the best option for the Western Cape and that she will further polarise the city into white and black, I have always maintained that I believe in our democracy.
I do believe though that having a premier that I have not voted for, representing a party I do not identify with in any way, will make me a much better, more vocal citizen.
As someone who lived in this province all my life, I will be watching her majesty like a hawk, calling her out on any shortfalls, especially on the Cape Flats and in townships as 49% of the Province did not vote for the DA.
I will continue to comment when Mrs Zille gets on her high horse and speaks down to people who don’t agree with her.
My hope is that the ANC will be a strong opposition, as they were before taking over the provincial parliament in 2004.
I also hope COPE gets rid of Alan Boesak who cost them at least 2 votes that I know of, finds their identity and for the sake of their own survival to not enter alliances with either the ANC or DA.
I would wish the new premier-in-waiting well, but I would be lying.
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