haye...@hotmail.com (Steve Hayes) skryf in boodskap news:...
> A friend in Lesotho asked why South Africans are not more excited about
> Charlize Theron winning an Oscar.
>
> My response: well, it's nice for her, but what more can one say.
>
> The media are certainly in a frenzy about it, but when I heard her acceptance
> speech on the radio, I cringed with embrarrassment. Surely a person in the
> acting profesion should be able to put a few words together more competently
> than that. And if she couldn't do it off the cuff, should cold have written
> out her acceptance speech (just in case), and learned her lines. After all,
> it's her job.
Personally, I was very disappointed she didn't say a word in
Afrikaans in her acceptance speech. Ms. Theron was probably advised by
her agent/PR consultants that it would be politically incorrect to do
so.
I wonder why a public figure saying a mere "thank you" in Afrikaans
in front of a worldwide audience still remains such a taboo! After
all, nobody refrains from speaking German because Germany was once
ruled by the Nazis. Why should Afrikaans be maligned then just because
the founding fathers of apartheid happened to be Afrikaners? The
current stigma attached to the Afrikaans language is even more ironic
when you consider that at least half of its native speakers are
actually non-white (coloured).
Vanoggend net na 7 is daar 'n huldeblyk vir Dullah Omar, minister van
vervoer, wat vanoggend vroeg dood is. Net gister lees ek Oom Nelson het
verklaar dat hy uit die siekbed sou opstaan.
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Annette
Ek is bietjie in die war tov die geldskenkings van groot maatskappye vir die
verkiesing. Die geld wat geskenk word, gaan glo pro-rata opgedeel word
volgens die aantal setels wat elke party tydens die vorige verkiesing
verwerf het.
Sou dit nie meer regverdig gewees het om dit gelykop tussen al die partye
wat aan die parlementêre verkiesing deelneem te verdeel nie?
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Annette
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