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Happy 90th Birthday Mr Mandela!
Source: South Africa Info’s Mandela Gallery
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Small, Small, Catch Monkey
This is the second guest post installment from AfricanKelli. Check her blog for more photos and a detailed account of her work in Moz.
I’ve just returned from two weeks in Beira, Mozambique. I work for an American NGO that has a public health project in eight outlying villages of Beira.
This city was once the major […]
Horses, Silk and Feathers
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Designer Siphokazi Mzekandaba shows off
her very pretty peacock-inspired design.
(Photo: Richard Shorey of The Times)
For those living out of the country, this past weekend was the Durban July at Greyville Race Course and I ran across these pictures of avant garde fashion at the race. […]
Bravo Mr. Zuma!
Not often you’ll hear me say that!
Jacob Zuma’s actions may have been dicy in the past — and I don’t exactly relish the idea of a man with his seeming lack of moral judgment running the country.
But I have to stand up and say (actually I feel like jumping up and down screaming!) “FINALLY!” and […]
iBEZ 4 PREZ! Tannie Evita Now Holding Court on Zoopy!
You’d think after all these years that we’d be over Tannie Evita. Or that she’d be irrelevant in this era of South-African globalism and the passing of her old-time political rivals.
But she manages to reinvent herself — as with the launch of her new multi-media channel on Zoopy — South Africa’s very successful answer to […]
Talking to a South African about Obama
A couple months ago I had an interesting conversation with a friend, a middle-aged (he’d give me crap for saying that) scientist, highly respected in his field, who lives in New York City with his wife and teenage son.
I forget the exact discussion so many months later but he started along the lines of, “I’m […]
Why She Moved to Australia
Sarah Britten, contributor to Thought Leader, posted an article Monday on taking a new and exciting job in Australia and choosing to leave South Africa.
I thought I’d link to it here because she writes eloquently about the many reasons she decided to step across the ocean.
An excerpt:
“My reasons for leaving South Africa for Australia are […]
Happy Freedom Day
“None who have always been free can understand
the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom
to those who are not free.”
Pearl S. Buck, American novelist
and Nobel Prize Winner
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What We Eat: An Interesting Global Perspective
Yesterday being Earth Day and all, I thought I’d refer you all to a fascinating post over at Ideate that looks at what families all over the world consume in an average week food wise.
Andrew Smith points to an original Time Magazine photo gallery of pictures showing families from places as diverse as […]
Enough is Enough in Zimbabwe
There is nothing sweet or unexpected about this post. Not even one bit.
And I promise you I will not post this kind of thing on a regular basis — I am all about looking on the bright side and being glass-half-full.
But I am pretty sure we all feel the same way about what is happening […]
Where You’ve Come From to Where You Now Are
This past weekend I was reminded of the challenges of leaving South Africa and moving to another country.
When I moved to Canada, it felt easy — I was young, in love and excited about everything a new country had to offer. But it was not without its challenges. Probably the biggest three being learning to […]
Let Me Say It Once …
Taking a big breath, holding my nose, jumping into the deep end.
I often talk about wanting eLuckypacket to be a place for us to share the good and the bad. But then I know that this means allowing you to say what’s really on your mind and so, up to this point, I haven’t raised […]
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