Een deelnemer gisteraand moes nie eers aansoek gedoen het om in die program
op te tree nie.
Die vraag was van watter land kom Anna Maria Kauffmann
Sy antwoord :Berlyn.
Nee, die land.
Ierland.
:))
Annette
Ses uur môreoggend vertrek ek na Durban tot die eerste week in die
nuwe jaar.
Ek neem my Notebook saam waarvandaan ek gewoonlik skryf
as Paul Van Straaten.
Dit beteken natuurlik dat Davie Davis gaan verlof hou en Paul nie. Ek
sal dus steeds skryf as Paul Van Straaten maar eers vroeg in die nuwe
jaar sal Davie Davis weer sy gesig wys.
Mag God se Rykste Seën julle Kerstyd vul en mag Sy Hand vir julle
oop wees in die nuwe jaar en Hy dit die beste jaar tot dusver maak vir
elke siel op hierdie nuusgroep.
Outrage as Black Reporter says 'Thank God for Slavery'
A black American author has sparked anger and controversy among black
nationalists "by repudiating his African roots and thanking God his
ancestor was enslaved."
"Keith Richburg has been shunned and insulted for daring to reject the
Afro-centric idealism which is an article of faith in black America.
In 'Out Of America', published in February,1997, (hardcover, 288
pages;
'Basic Books,' ISBN: 0465001874), after he spent three years reporting
from Africa for the Washington Post, Mr Richburg hurls down a
challenge to black American leaders to stop deceiving themselves and
the 35 million (black) descendants of slaves, that Africa is Eden on
earth.
"I'm tired of lying,' he writes. 'And I'm tired of all the ignorance
and hypocrisy and the double standards I hear and read about Africa,
much of it from people who've never been there, let alone spent three
years walking around amid the corpses.
"Talk to me about Africa and my black roots and my kinship with my
African brothers and I'll throw it back in your face, and then I'll
rub your nose in the images of the rotting flesh.'
"Richburg spent three years covering the continent's senseless
violence, corruption, bloody and incessant cruelties--machete-wielding
Hutu militiamen, a cholera epidemic in Zaire, famine in Somalia, civil
war in Liberia, disease, dirt, dictatorships, killer children, AIDS,
terror.
"Had my ancestor not made it out of here,' Richburg muses, 'I might
have ended up in that crowd...maybe I would have been one of those
bodies, washing over the waterfall in Tanzania or maybe my son would
have been set ablaze by soldiers. Or I would be limping now from the
torture I received in some rancid police cell...'
Afrocentrism 'has become fashionable for many blacks, Richburg notes.
'It cannot work for me. I have been here, I have lived here and seen
Africa in all its horror.'
"Mr Richburg's every word is an assault on the group identity politics
which have taken hold among black intellectuals and leads, critics
say, to a Balkanisation of American society. Thinking about his slave
forebear, transported in chains to the Caribbean and thence to South
Carolina, Mr Richburg writes: "Thank God my ancestor got out, because,
now, I am not one of them [Africans]. In short, thank God I am an
American."
"Borders, a Washington D.C. book shop, was packed this month for a
lecture by Mr Richburg at which hecklers accused him of racial
betrayal. 'One man demanded to know if the author had a white
girlfriend,' said Mary Ann Brownlow, who organised the lecture.
"When Mr Richburg appeared on a talk show on Black Entertainment
Television, Randall Robinson, leader of the TransAfrica lobby group
and one of America's most prominent blacks, refused to join the
discussion.
"Jackie Clark, producer of the show, said: 'We African-Americans have
this vision of Africa as the motherland which we see in this wonderful
light
but people who have lived there can burst this bubble. It takes
courage to say things you know are going to outrage people, but I
think Richburg wishes he were white.'
"Out Of America is a gruesomely detailed account of barbarism and
corruption across the continent, particularly in Somalia and Rwanda.
The author pulls no punches in condemning it, and no...myth is spared.
When sketching how his ancestor was enslaved, he says it was first
'probably by a local chieftain.' The suggestion that African blacks
were slave owners is anathema in America...
"Mr Richburg, who is now working for the Washington Post in Hong Kong,
says he is not condoning the evil of slavery, but insists that
condemning it should not blind blacks to the fact that good has
emerged from it..."
Reviews of Richburg's Out of America:
E.G. Long: "Africa is a painful reality. Over the past 21 years, I
have lived and worked in five African countries: Kenya, Tanzania,
Zambia, Zaire and Nigeria. ..There is nothing in Richburg's book that
I could contradict. I too, experienced the horror, and hopelessnesss
of that continent. I read 'Out of America' in one sitting... "
Steve Wishnevsky: "This is the voice missing from the current race
'dialogue.' Mr. Richburg is a courageous writer and clear
observer...His is an authentic voice and should be listened to
closely. America is the only land where the descendants of Africans
have anything approaching freedom and economic opportunity."
H. Luther: "So much of what you hear about Africa lately is from
people who have never been there. People who want to romanticize what
is in fact chaos and disaster...Richburg has written what he has seen,
he has presented reality with great integrity. It is a must read. " --
Peter Watson
Ons het nou Harry Potter 2 en Lord of the Rings 2 hier.
Volgende jaar kom Matrix 2, Charlie's Angels 2 en Gladiator 2.
Wonder wanner kry ons Hans en Die Rooinek 2:))
Annette
'n Prokureur in Johannesburg is in hegtenis geneem vir bedrog met die
padongeluksfonds vir 11miljoen. 'n Ander prokureur het betyds gevlug.
Die vraag is natuurlik hoekom daar 'n prokureur nodig is om 'n eis in te
dien .
Mens het tog nie 'n prokureur nodig om te eis teen versekering nie?
Vir almal wat in Midrand bly - ADSL is uiteindelik beskikbaar hier by ons.
Die modem wat jy nodig het kos sowat R2000 (jy kan dit afbetaal oor 6
maande), maandelikse lynhuur kos jou R680, Installasie kos R404 (once off),
en dan moet jy nog jou ISP ook betaal. Moenie direk deur Telkom gaan nie
(R219), hulle het 'n 3gig bandwydte limiet per maand. As jy dit vir meer as
twee maande na mekaar oorskry vra hulle jou meer. Posix vra R260 per
maand, maar jy't geen limiet op bandwydte nie. Opstuur (Upload) spoed met
ADSL is 256Kbps per sekonde, aftrek (download) spoed is 512Kbps per sekonde.
Neem in ag dat jou gewone ou op straat 'n 56Kbps modem het en dit klink asof
ADSL net te lekker kan wees.
Wanneer jy klaar jou modem betaal het, kan jy verwag om so om en by R940 per
maand vir 24 uur Internet te betaal, aansienlik goedkoper as ISDN en gewone
modem "dial-ups".
Pas my huis nuut geverf. Gistermiddag sien ek
dat 'n ywerige swaelpaar besig is om 'n nes te
bou reg voor die agterdeur op die stoep teen
die lieflike pasgeverfde mosterdmuur. Binne
enkele dae gaan hulle teen die nuutgeverfde
wit plafon begin bou. En ek het hulle dopgehou
waar hulle op die stoeptralies gesit het soos hulle
het my dopgehou het van waar hulle op die stoeptralies
gesit het. Die wyfie het vir die mannetjie geknik, gevlieg
en gaan bakstene haal. Hy het haar gevolg en begin sement
aanmaak. Wat het hulle vir mekaar gesê? Ag, die ou sal ons nie
uitsmyt nie? Ons het gesug, 'n uitsettingsbevel oorweeg, vir 'n
oomblik selfs aan blatante hardhandige uitsmyting gedink.
En toe besluit om verblyfreg aan hulle te voorsien. Die feit dat hulle
op die stoep onder die dak bou vertel natuurlik dit wat geen
weervoorspeller die kennis het om te voorspel nie. Dat die reën laaank
nie verby is nie.
Rudolf die Rooineus Hert se twee goue balletjies was te ooglopend vir etlike
sorgsame ouers.
Hy is dus ontneem daarvan by Cavendish Square.
:))
Annette
Idasa het glo 'n navorsingslys vrygestel, waarvolgens Kortbroek as die
ongewildste premier aangetoon word.
Hy het dit onomwonde veroordeel.
Toe is daar 'n dame wat te vertelle het dat hy sukkel om te glimlag, daarom
dat hy so ongewild is. Hy is glo te ernstig vir sy eie gewildheid;))
Hulle kon toe net 323 verskillende voëls sien - 20 kort vir die rekord. Daar
word beweer dat hulle dit miskien kom gemaak het as dit nie was vir die
sterk wind in Mkuze nie - waar die voëls vervaard aan die takke probeer
vasklou het en nie uitgekom het om raakgesien te word nie. en die ywerige
verkeerskonstable wat die vloot van 20 4x4's gestop het omdat hulle nie
behoorlike lisensieplate vertoon het nie.
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