This whole drama with the Eugene Terre'Blanche murder is becoming tiresome. And certain South African politicians are really making arses of themselves in the international media. I know it sounds silly, but why can't everyone just focus on getting the stuff that's important done, like making sure there's proper education and healthcare, that ( Read more... )

 This morning the FB mill provided some fodder for further ruminations about the State of the Nation. It would appear that disgruntled farmworkers murdered our far-out-there white supremacist Eugene TerreBlanche of the "falling off my horse in public fame".

Most (in)famously he was known for trying to rekindle Afrikaner nationalism during the days ( Read more... )

The baboons rampaged through our neighbourhood again. I don't blame them. The dustbins usually provide rich pickings over the weekends, and it's the silly season, so people tend to be wasting more food than usual. The folks living diagonally across the way from us had a few of the primates going through their wheelie bins so it was high drama in ( Read more... )

Sin Whore, a close friend of mine, who has worked with Thomas on a number of alternative fashion shots, kindly dropped by my virtual lounge for a cuppa joe and a lêkker chat.

This week she's officially published as a Voltgirl:
www.voltcase.com/voltgirls/323-sin-whore-alternative-model.htmlSo I'd like to congratulate her on this achievement, a ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, some guy tried to rob me yesterday. The full, sad story is here:
nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2009/11/suffering-bout-of-impromptu-crime.html

Today I'm sitting back trying to analyse how I feel about the situation. One word: guilt.

There's a bit of Great White Guilt suggesting I should have let that poor Tanzanian go. ( Read more... )

Title: Exhibit A
Author: Sarah Lotz
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2009
Buy link: www.kalahari.net/books/-Exhibit-A/632/34169938.aspx

South African author Sarah Lotz made her debut in 2008 with Pompidou Posse, a touching, if sometimes harrowing semi-autobiographical account of her time spent in Paris when she and a friend lived on the streets. Exhibit A, ( Read more... )

Heads up to those of you interested in South African underground culture. There's a new free ezine/printable mag available. Oh, and I'm going to be contributing regularly.

exhibitmag.co.za/

's cool, ek sê.

A week or so ago, while Thomas had one of his infamous headaches, some weird old guy stumbled into our yard wanting to know who built our house. I told him I didn't know but there was a builder across the way, he should go talk to him. I mean, seriously, if you like the design of someone's house, how difficult is it to get another builder to ( Read more... )

If there's one thing that makes my blood boil it's fellow South Africans (and people I'm supposed to know and love) who cling to outdated and outmoded ways of thinking ( Read more... )

Yayness! My agent has agreed to represent Camdeboo Nights. The proviso is that I need to make less of the South Africanisms and I'm thinking of converting the MS into Americanese, because you know, those poor Americans just can't read and write proper UK English. . . *ducks before she gets slapped*

So, ja . . . Loads of work to still do but I'm ( Read more... )