Here in the Dorsbult the manne are very pleased about the World Cup cricket final. We’re happy because by Monday life will have returned to normal and we can watch the important sports — like darts, mud-wrestling and rugby — again on the box.
However, we don’t seem to be the only ones suffering from cricket-fatigue.
Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF-led government dismissed a seminar on Zimbabwe – that was organised by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa – as part of a “British-led campaign to isolate the country following a series of diplomatic successes by Harare”.
A message from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , which met in Gaborone, Botswana, from February 18 to 22, has pointed out that Lemmer missed an important date on February 22 — World Thinking Day
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/ 17 February 2003
Having seen far too many of his friends die of Aids, Oom Krisjan is a fervent supporter of efforts to persuade the government to ease access to anti-retrovirals. With no blasphemy intended, here is a modification of the Lord’s Prayer, adapted to our current crisis…
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/ 8 February 2003
Lemmer believes that women’s organisations – which regularly complain about the lack of media coverage of their efforts – sometimes have only themselves to blame. If you didn’t read much about the International Women’s Forum held in Sandton, don’t blame the media.
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/ 5 February 2003
A shaken Dorsbult regular tottered in after a deeply worrying encounter with the law on the morning of Freedom Day. Fortified by a dop or three, he recounted his sorry tale.
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/ 31 January 2003
Oom Krisjan was delighted in these globally dismal times to find this gem in his mail, sent by journalist friends in Afghanistan. Sing to the tune of If you are happy and you know it [clap your hands]
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/ 24 January 2003
The South African Communist Party members, bless their little pink socks, have always been the champions of the poor, the tired, the huddled masses … er no, that’s the Yankee capitalists, isn’t it? Well, our Reds have always been on the side of the not-so-wealthy.
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/ 17 January 2003
Dumisani Makhaye must be feeling that sometimes his words can come back to haunt him. The ANC NEC member has been going around telling disgruntled Eastern Cape ANC members to accept the national leadership’s decision to dissolve the provincial structures.
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/ 10 January 2003
They say it never rains but it pours. Just ask old Bad Bob up north. Not only does he have to deal with some mad moffie trying to effect a citizen’s arrest on him every time he takes his wife shopping at Harrods, but the world and its cousin is on his back over his handling of the land issue.