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The TV news today is full of what they call the first "gay wedding" in Britain. "Gay wedding or civil partnership, call it what you will..." says the news announcer. But that is the problem, or perhaps the evasion of the problem. In Britain the government has introduced "civil partnerships" for couples of the same sex. In South Africa the ( Read more... )

seraphim recently commented on his dislike of conspiracy theories just when I thought I had come up with a good one ( Read more... )

A few days ago "This Day" newspaper began publishing lists of ( Read more... )

On Monday got an e-mail from Dave Moore, who had helped me with some genealogical queries in Bristol. Now he says he is interested in Beat generation literature as well, and thinks it a strange combination. It has reawakened my interest in the subject, and he recommended some quite interesting books, but none are available in the Unisa library. But ( Read more... )

On Monday I was interviewed for a TV programme. It is to be a 13-part series on the political parties and movements of South Africa, and I was interviewd on the long-defunct Liberal Party.

The producer, who was not even born when the Liberal Party ceased to exist, had done a Google search, and my page was the only one that came up ( Read more... )

We fetched Fr Athanasios from the taxi rank, and drove to the Central Baptist Church in Schoeman Street, where Ella Wehrmeyer is waiting for us,with eight street children who are to join us at our service in Mamelodi.

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September 11 has been marked in newspapers here in South Africa by full-page articles about the attacks on the World Trade Center in the USA ( Read more... )

I recently bought a number of books at a book sale, and saw that most of the ones I had bought were literary biographies, of Arthur Koestler, Jonathan Swift and James Thurber ( Read more... )

For the last 15 years or so, I've communicated quite a bit on newsgroups, and more so recently, because with the declne in popularity of BBSs following the introduction of Windows 95. Two newsgroups I've participated in quite a bit have been alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox and alt.religion.christian.episcopal ( Read more... )