Archive for August, 2009
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
In the last week or so Dawid Greeff has been putting the moves on sweet Emma.
Of course he’s been set up by resident Laan witch Gita as revenge for Emma’s small role in leaking Gita’s affair with Tim, to his wife!
So far the plan to get Emma to fall for Dawid is going well.
He has somehow managed to insinuate himself into Emma’s life.
However Emma has a lovely boyfriend Herman and they are very much in love.
Will Dawid be able to steal Emma’s heart and then break it?
I’m guessing that the tables are going to be turned on Mr Dawid Greeff and that he’s the one who will be charmed by Emma.
He’s the one who will be falling for Emma who will reject him!
I hope the 7de Laan writers take that route.
Its pay back time and Dawid should be the one paying this time!
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
So Mnet have announced a new talk show featuring Gareth Cliff.
It starts on Wednesday 23 September at 8.00pm on the pay station and will include Gareth and a panel of three plus a studio audience.
All good and well…except for the fact that local talk shows have never worked in my recollection.
Just recently we had Kgomotso on SABC 2 cackling like a hyena while trying to get her guests to look more interesting than they were.
Mind you she was by far not the worst. There’s Paul Viv who no one outside his circle of friends knew before he was handed a late night talk show gig on SABC3.
Didnt work!
Sharleen Surtie Richards…should’ve, could’ve but ultimately…no go!
The less said about SABC3′s current Sunday night political satire with Darren something or other, the better.
As for Gareth Cliff…at least he’s still staying with 5fm where he has music and a team of presenters to make him look good on his bad days.
The real reason talk shows didn’t work well is because we don’t have real celebrities, the same politicians parade in front of the media day in and day out and we are far too politically correct to allow ourselves to be labelled to conservative or to radical.
Good luck to Gareth Cliff though. Maybe he’s the one who will break the talk show duck.
I won’t be holding my breath though.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Since the elections on 22 April, things have gotten far too quiet on the local political front. Reasonableness abound, except for one or two silly Malemaisms that escape into the public domain.
Even the new mayor of Cape Town hasn’t yet brought out a presentation to appease strikers across the city…not yet anyway!
I miss the craziness that was our last elections.
The name calling between Helen Zille and Julius Malema have all disappeared since 23 April.
All we have these days are a few token jabs by opposition parties that gets them a meeting with President Zuma…and then nothing.
Even former Archbishop Desmond Tutu is making nice with the president, saying he, Zuma has genuine warmth and connects more easily with people than his predecessor.
We need our own Sarah Palin (in the form of resident genius Julius Malema) – that former and probably future US political candidate.
vs 
She tweets the most ridiculous statements, updates her Facebook and blogs half-truths all in the name of keeping her face in the national spotlight.
Not only does she make stupidity look cool – to her constituents, she’s laying the foundation for her future.
Imagine the 2012 US election campaign. Obama vs Palin.
Obama the bad guy for being president after Bush vs Palin who has upped her game since 2008 and can now string two sentences together…on Twitter and Facebook. How cool is that?
But back to the real reason for this post. Julius Malema and Twitter.
The man already has a Twitter account.
All we need is a few stupid remarks a week – nothing more – and everyone feels smarter for a day.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I was barely in the door this morning when our receptionist asked whether I believed Caster Semenya to be male or female.
Throughout the day the topic of conversation made it around the office, complete with this morning’s front page of the Cape Times.
Admittedly there were giggles and a few bewildered looks. Many people had actually no idea what the fuss was about or who Semenya was.
The consensus was that, yes, she looks very masculine, yet no one would have blinked an eye if the controversy had not surfaced as some men looked feminine and some women masculine.
One colleague actually compared Semenya to the tennis playing Williams sisters! Although I wouldn’t go that far.
None of us had however heard of Caster Semenya before yesterday when the controversy originated in Australia.
All felt bad for a young, 18 year old, who had to go through such public scrutiny as something so personal as her sexuality/gender.
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I’m not in the loop with the world of athletics, so it came as a bit of a surprise this morning to hear of the controvery involving a South African athlete.
Caster Semenya is an eighteen year old 800m athlete representing our country at the IAAF World Championship.
She’s being accussed of not being a woman! Of all things.
One would have thought it would be relatively easy to test for gender- for instance:
- Does she have a penis…or
- an Adams apple
- how about a womb
Apparently its not that easy because the IAAF have brought in the services of an endocrinologist, gynaecologist, internal medical expert and a psychologist to prove whether Caster is a woman.
To illumimate matters even more, e-news showed an image of the athlete and she looks masculine to me.
This whole episode reminds me of a poem we did at primary school called The Twins by Henry S Leigh where the hapless twin laments, “…I put the question fruitlessly to everyone I knew.
What would you do if you were me to prove that you were you?”
Sooner or later we’ll know the result of the test.
Until then Ms Semenya will still have permission to race…and win gold for her country.
Like she did just a few minutes ago.
If nothing else, at least the controversy put the athlete in the
public eye. Otherwise we might have heard her name in passing on sports bulletins tomorrow morning.
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