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Hierdie jaar was daar 'n klomp nuwe goed te proe - gedroogde wors wat eers
in olyfolie gelê het. Volstruisbiltongpattee, Gepiekelde aspersies met peper
( my keuse) en roosmaryn. nuwe sjokolades, koekies, souse wat mens met
vleis, vis of roomys kan geniet, en natuurlik koffie. Daar is nou 'n ystee
op die mark wat in poeirvorm uitkom - baie lekker. Oatees ringetjies was ook
nuut, ek het my vereet aan die nuwe Harrismither kampioenkaas en ek het my
dag gister begin met 'n whiskyproe, mampoerproe, bierproe en wynproe om 'n
aptyt op te wek vir die calimarirepies en marog
Permissive African traditions spread AIDS
(Reuters)
ISIOLO, Kenya - Men in the arid, remote Kenyan town of Isiolo have
long had sex with young virgins to purge themselves of afflictions or
curses.
Now the age-old custom practised by the nomadic peoples of Kenya's
northeastern province is increasingly being used as a cure for
HIV/AIDS.
Nassir hesitantly admits he slept with a nine-year-old girl because
the clan elders in Isiolo, 200 km (124.3 miles) northeast of Kenyan
capital Nairobi, said it would rid him of frequent bouts of illness
brought on by HIV.
ÂI was given a girl of nine years to sleep with for a week, Nassir
said. ÂI took pity on her but if it wasn't for this disease I wouldn't
have slept with her...I had to do what the elders had said.Â
Isiolo's pastoralist community practices a mix of traditional African
beliefs. Illiteracy is high and AIDS is shrouded in stigma and
superstition.
ÂI am still afraid (that I may die), but there are many people from my
area who have done it, Nassir said. ÂMany survive, many die.Â
Although he paid 15,000 shillings ($195.9) and his mother gave up two
goats for the purging ceremony, Nassir still gets ill once in a while
and goes for treatment in a clinic run by a local charity whose
Swahili name Pepo La Tumaini Jangwani, means Wind of Hope in the Arid
Land.
After the ceremony, which includes gouging out a goat's heart while it
is still alive, the people of the village engage in a sexual orgy
intended to help a son or brother cleanse himself.
Nassir said he would get tested at the end of the year to see if he
has been cured.
Breeding ground
Two million of Kenya's 30 million people are HIV-positive and 1.5
million have already died.
Khadija Omar Rama, the founder of the Tumaini charity said that
despite the fact that up to 800 Kenyans die every day from AIDS,
communities like Isiolo continue to embrace traditional practices
which actively help to spread AIDS.
Another ancient custom permits men of the same generation to have
indiscriminate and unprotected sex with the wives of their peers. A
spear propped by the door of a man's house means that someone else
from his age group is in bed with his wife.
ÂNone of us is jealous about someone else sleeping with our wives
because we all do it, said Nassir, who says he has slept with the
wives of many men, even though he suspects he has HIV.
Nassir thinks his wife, who died shortly after his cleansing ceremony,
was infected with AIDS. She was never tested.
One woman who did not want to be named said her husband stabbed her in
the eye for objecting to having their daughter take part in a
cleansing ceremony.
She now belongs to the Maula, a group of women sponsored by Tumaini
who hope to convince people to abandon the old ways by reporting the
use of girls in purging ceremonies and offering alternative rituals
for men with AIDS.
Alternative cleansing rites
Rama says alternative cleansing rituals are highly contentious and the
Maula must operate in secret. Men who do visit, come to them under the
cover of darkness.
ÂThe women have to be very discreet about the alternative method of
cleansing and this is counter-productive for their campaign, Rama
said.
In a dome-shaped hut made of sticks, nine veiled Maula members sit in
a semi-circle for the cleansing ceremony. The earthen floor is covered
in mats and all footwear is left outside what is now considered holy
ground.
Popcorn, roasted coffee berries cooked in oil, coffee cups, sugar
cubes and a bar of soap lie in the centre while a pungent smell from a
small incense burner passed from woman to woman as part of the ritual,
assaults the nostrils.
Rama said reporting traditional purging ceremonies to the authorities
can sometimes cause further trauma for the girls who have been forced
to take part. She said two girls disappeared after the Maula reported
that they had been forced to take part. One is still missing.
One traditional custom which may help save some women from the deadly
virus that has afflicted much of sub Saharan Africa comes at a price.
Many women who suspect their husbands are infected with AIDS or HIV
have been turning to sufis, women healers, to put off their husband's
advances.
Traditionally, a woman seeking to join an elder council or tribal
leadership is required to stop having sex and will ask a sufi to her
bedroom to discourage her husband. In such circumstances the husband
eventually gives up.
But women who choose to use a sufi are not permitted to ever have sex
again and they are killed if caught in the act.
Pretoria - About 30 white South Africans gathered on a Pretoria
sidewalk on Saturday afternoon to honour the victims of a 1983 car
bomb.
The group piled rocks and flowers around a street pole before
observing a silent moment and singing the apartheid-era national
anthem Die Stem.
The wording of a red ribbon among the pile read: "In remembrance of
members of the Boer nation (Boerevolk) who perished".
The gathering was organised by a group of Afrikaner organisations
called the Volksversetaksie (loosely translated as people's resistance
action).
Twenty-one people, including the two bombers, were killed and 217
injured when a car packed with explosives detonated outside the SA Air
Force's then-headquarters in Church Street on May 20, 1983. The
victims were mostly civilians.
The bombing was orchestrated by the African National Congress's armed
wing Umkhonto we Sizwe, then in the midst of an armed struggle against
apartheid.
At least six of those killed were black South Africans.
Organiser Dan Roodt said Saturday's ceremony was aimed at countering
the "current amnesia" about "atrocities" committed by apartheid-era
resistance movements, as well as remembering the casualties.
These included blacks, he said in response to a question. But mourners
kept referring to "our people" and "Boers".
A handful of curious black onlookers circled the gathering, some even
mouthing the words to Die Stem as it was sung vigorously under a new
South African flag fluttering from a nearby mast.
Donkeraand by die pan hoor ek hom luid
asof uit die niet oor my sip-sip-siee.
Oor die water weerklink sy helder fluit.
Hy kom van 'n kleiner pan verder suid
en was 'n stippel wat teen sterre vlie.
Donkeraand by die pan hoor ek hom luid.
Alleen gaan hy by die ander aansluit
in die palmiet, skuins teen die aandwindjie.
Oor die water weerklink sy helder fluit.
Hy daal om die nag op die pan te slyt
en vou sy vlerke as hy stil inski.
Donkeraand by die pan hoor ek hom luid.
'n Skadu teen swart swem hy stadig uit:
nou sien niemand waar nie, of wat of wie.
Oor die water weerklink sy helder fluit.
Veilig teen die wakker jagters se kruit
wei hy waar hulle hom nie sal kry nie.
Donkeraand by die pan hoor ek hom luid.
Oor die water weerklink sy helder fluit.
In minstens die derde plaasmoord binne 'n week is 'n boer van
Heidelberg, Gauteng, Vrydag op 'n mielieland op sy plaas doodgeskiet.
Vier mans het mnr. Eddie Jordaan (71) glo kort ná 09:00 oorval terwyl
hy mielies op die plaas verkoop het, het supt. Andy Pieke,
polisiewoordvoerder in die Oos-Rand, gesê.
Twee skote is glo geskiet, maar net een het hom in die bolyf getref.
Volgens Pieke het die aanvallers met Jordaan se selfoon, sowat R5 000
en sy vuurwapen gevlug. Party het in 'n swart Citi Golf weggery en
ander het weggehardloop.
Pieke het gesê Jordaan is inderhaas na 'n hospitaal op die dorp
geneem, maar is by sy aankoms dood verklaar.
Mnr. Chris van Zyl, veiligheidshoof van die TLU SA, het Vrydag gesê
dié moord is onrusbarend. "Ons het gerugte gehoor dat Jordaan vroeër
die week gewaarsku is oor 'n moontlike aanval en dit bekommer ons."
Jordaan was van 1989 tot 1992 'n KP-LP.
Mnr. Pieter Groenewald, woordvoerder van die VF Plus, het Vrydag gesê
dié party gaan die departement van veiligheid en sekuriteit opnuut vra
om aandag aan plaasmoorde te gee.
Vroeër vandeesweek is mnr. Henk Fourie (29) van die plaas Varkenskraal
in die Groblersdal-omgewing in Mpumalanga koelbloedig vermoor.
Me. Dina Fourie, sy suster wat in Pretoria woon, het Vrydag gesê: "Dit
was bloot moord. Die moordenaars het nie eens 5c uit my boetie se
bakkie gevat nie. Hulle het niks, niks, niks gevat nie."
Fourie en sy vrou, Shirley, het hout op die dorp gaan aflaai voordat
hulle op die plaas, sowat 10 km buite die dorp, oorval is. Fourie is
in die rug geskiet.
"Dit sal baie vertroosting bring as die moordenaars gevang word.
Ongelukkig sal dit nooit my broer kan terugbring nie," het mev. Dina
Fourie gesê.
Haar broer word Dinsdagoggend 10:00 uit die NG kerk Groblersdal
begrawe.
Die Suid-Afrikaanse boer wat verlede naweek op 'n plaas in die
Tuli-blok in Botswana vermoor is, word ook Dinsdag begrawe.
Mev. Tertia Momberg (47) sal om 14:00 uit die Avbob-kapel in Kempton
Park begrawe word.
Troppe jare terug, in die stil oertyd,
het die see tot teen Rooilepel gespeel
Vandag haal ek my kieselguhr uit
waar die sand oor Gariep kom sifkaneel
Die swaarkry van die jare wat ons maar van lees
maak plooie aan die kante van my kleim
Maar dié stuk geskiedenis is lankal gewees
en ek het net oë vir die môres uit my myn
Vér oor die duine ry die trokke vragte
weg na Modderfontein en Somerset-Wes
Of bly daar soms van die kieselguhr agter,
sodat ek dit self kan sif en meng?
Miskien - dan brou ek snags onbewus
aan my droom se eie dinamiet;
begin om al singende stukke geskiedenis
uit gister se groeityd los te skiet.
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