Ek het so 'n klein programmetjie (mp3converter.zip) op
onderstaande ftp gesit. Dit verander 'n .mp3 lêer na 'n .exe
Vergroot die lêer met ongeveer 10kb. Daar is ook 'n voorbeeld
(AaronicBenedictionEnglish.exe) wat afgelaai kan word vir latere
oopmaak, of jy kan dit sommer net daar en dan laai en speel.
(Dit is te sê as jy nie bang is om 'n .exe lêer wat ek gemaak
het, oop te maak nie.) .... hehehe *��
--
Ek gooi 'n klip in die skelm se bos, slaan die drom met 'n 4lb
hamer en lui diedie klokkie. Luister wat ek fluister.
"Walk & C More�"
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Ek is bekommerd dat die mense hier nie hul bekommernis te kenne wil gee oor
wat miskien volgende naweek kan gebeur nie.
Ek is bly dat ons mense nou kampe op ons grense opgerig het ( aan ons kant)
om vlugtelinge uit Zimbabwe te kan ontvang en tydelik te huisves.
Ek dink egter nie ons moet die enigste land wees wat die vlugteling situasie
moet hanteer nie - alle ander lande sal moet help - miskien kan Gloudina van
daardie kant begin reel dat daar 'n lugbrug na Kanada oopgestel word, en
Australië en NZ kan ook maar vrywillig en geredelik hulp aanbied:))
Dan is daar al die ander voorspoedige Afrika lande wat nie behoort te skroom
om 'n helpende hand uit te steek nie.
Vanoggend was daar ook iemand op tiewie wat wou beweer dat die
voedseltekort - soos dit nou in Zimbabwe uitsien - drie jaar sal neem om te
stabiliseer.
Ons weet egter dat dit baie langer kan neem, want ek is seker die onderste
draaipunt - hoe sleg dit nou ook nou al daar gaan, is nog nie bereik nie.
Gaan dit enigsens help om van ons swart boere te redeploy om die "veterane"
daar te gaan touwys maak
wat om met hul stukkies grond aan te vang?
Sal daardie mense ooit kan begryp - ek verstaan dit was een van die probleme
in Transkei- dat hulle meer sal moet produseer op 'n gereelde jaarlikse
basis as wat hul nodig het vir eie gebruik, en dat hulle nie kan ophou en
terugsit en wag totdat hulle voorraad opgebruik is voordat hulle weer begin
plant nie?
Is die lappies grond wat hulle ongrondwetlik/grondwetlik verniet gekry het,
groot genoeg om 'n bestaan te kan maak?
Hoe gaan Zimbabwe die kleinboere subsidieer as hulle nie eers geld het om
petrol aan te koop nie?
Is dit reg en regverdig om geld aan die Mugabe-regering te skenk en te
verwag hulle sal dit aanwend om die dreigende hongersnood en ellende af te
weer?
Hoe lank is daar al gebeds/ mediteer- groepe aan die gang wat bid en/of
konsentreer op 'n vreedsame verkiesing volgende naweek in Zimbabwe?
Rudolf Straueli is aangewys as die nuwe springbok rugby afrigter.
Sy verklaring is dat hy slegs spelers wat fiks en op spelpeil is sal kies -
ongeag wat hulle in die verlede al vermag het - is miskien voorbrand dat
darlinkie Bobby wat nou Bob is sy plek as speler en kaptein gaan verloor.
Gister ( Saterdag) was daar by Stellenbosch die tweede Afrikaanse Woordfees.
Verlede jaar met die inry was daar nogal verkeersprobleme van verdwalende
feesgangers - hierdie jaar kon ek nou nie eintlik 'n besiger Saterdagoggend
in Stellenbosch opmerk as gewoonlik nie.
Ek wonder net of die organisasie nie bietjie swak was nie - ons het 'n
halfuur later as wat geadverteer was opgetree ( tot spyt van 'n paar
mense) - daar was verskeie notas - komper-gedruk op wit wat aankondig dat
sekere programme later op 'n ander plek aangebied gaan word, en die een wat
vir my bietjie verkeerd was - of miskien het ek verkeerd gelees - in die
Neelsie - vanaf 11vm tot 5nm - sou verskeie skrywers gratis met die publiek
praat en vrae beantwoord, terwyl op 'n ander poster staan - Saterdag:
Neelsie: vanaf 2nm - WoordRock. - wat alternatiewe Afrikaanse musiek kon
wees.
Lees in die lang brief net wat jy wil maar
moet verà l nie die afsluitingsparagraaf
miskyk nie.
Who Should Apologize?
By Sam Novicinth who is originally from Congo-Brazzaville and now
lives in the United States.
To my brothers and sisters in the Americas: I am writing in response
to an article "The Future of Slavery's Past" written by Professor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a journal in America. I am a young African
man from Congo-Brazzaville, a small Bantu-speaking country on the West
coast of Central Africa, where French is the official language (7 am
still learning the English language so I hope you will over look my
mistakes). I belong to the Kongo ethnic group, and therefore I am a
descendant of the people of the ancient Kongo kingdom, which
disappeared under Portuguese rule during the 17th century. Like many
of the kingdoms of the West Coast of Africa, the kingdom of Kongo took
part in the slave trade by selling millions of Africans to the
Portuguese.
I have to say I have great respect and admiration for Professor Gates,
who has already won his place as one of the great men of African
History by revealing to people of African descent and others the past
glories of our people. He has contributed as much to raising our
self-esteem as many civil rights leaders and modem African heroes. But
I am very saddened that such a knowledgeable man holds such a
simplistic view of the responsibility of the African people in the
development of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Most of the people who were taken from Africa as slaves left behind
them parents, brothers, sisters and children; and it was certainly not
by their relatives that those people were sold. Most of the slaves
were obtained as the result of warfare between slave-trading states
and rival or weaker kingdoms and communities. In what is now
Nigeria, for instance, the Igbo people suffered from raids by slave
traders because they didn't have a political unit to protect them. The
slave trade meant prosperity for some African kingdoms on the coastal
parts of the continent, but certainly not of the whole of Africa; as
one kingdom was getting wealthier, in the inner parts of the
impoverished and depopulated. Imagine what it would have meant for a
village to lose all its healthy men and women after a raid by slave
traders and be left with only old people and very young children to
protect and feed themselves.
In Congo-Brazzaville, where I come from, it is said that the north of
the country, which is far inland, was depopulated due to the fact that
the slave-trading kingdoms like Kongo and Loango got most of the
people they sold from there; and that is why the ethnic group Kongo
today accounts for more than half of the population of the Republic of
(Congo). But there were also millions of Kongo people who were sold in
the same way.
You see, the concept of African Unity and Brotherhood is very recent
indeed, and the ethnic wars in modem Africa prove that it is an idea
that many Africans have not comprehended yet. In the old times, for
most Africans, the world didn't go far beyond the shores of our
motherland, and they would not feel any sort of affinity with someone
from another kingdom, community or caste. The concept of Africa itself
was born with European colonization.
So let me come to the point. The assumption that all Africans today
are descendants of slave traders is untrue and unfair.
Most of today's Africans are the descendants of both slave traders and
slaves, or of neither of them. The African population is now about ten
times what it was in the times of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and
countless migrations of people have occurred all over the continent in
the last four centuries. It is very unlikely that the descendants of
those who were sold into slavery didn't breed with those of their
sellers. Therefore it doesn't make sense for the African continent to
apologize for its role in the slave trade, as most of us are the
descendants of its victims. You cannot apologize to yourself, can you?
Most of Africa, which is the inland part of the continent, never
benefited at any time in history from the slave trade. It was rather
to the contrary.
Even though I come from a kingdom that took part in the slave trade,
the only reason I would feel compelled to apologize to African
Americans for the African involvement into the slave trade would be if
I was 100% sure that 1 was the descendant only of slave traders and
not of a single person taken as a slave to the Americas. And should I
remind you that millions of slaves were taken to other parts of
Africa, like North Africa, Sao Tome Principe, East Africa.
Do you think their descendants should apologize too?
Given the fact that there are only about 40 million Africans in the
United States, against about 700 million in Africa, it is likely that
you will find more descendants of slaves in Africa than in the United
States.
What President Kerekou did, apologizing to African Americans for
slavery, was totally inappropriate and ridiculous. If he is convinced
of being a descendant of slave traders fine, but he had certainly no
right to apologize in the name of all the African people. The African
leaders who should apologize, I believe, are the kings of Dahomey (now
Benin) and Ghana, as we all know who their ancestors were and what
they did; despite the fact that their kingdoms do not officially exist
anymore. I read some time ago that about 30% of African Americans are
originated from Europe on the paternal side. Do you think those 30%
should apologize to the rest of the African community worldwide for
the countless rapes and humiliations their white ancestors inflicted
upon African women and men?
As for the question of reparations, I believe it is right for Africans
to be paid compensation for the impoverishment and depopulation of
their homelands. The slave trade took our fathers, our mothers, our
families and we are only asking for money in return. But, I also
believe that all the people who took part in this crime against
humanity should contribute to the payment of damages, regardless of
their color or ethnicity.
Unfortunately the African kingdoms that took part in this trade were
destroyed by colonization and have now officially disappeared. But the
European and American powers that benefited from the slave trade still
exist, and are still benefiting from it, that is why they should pay
first.
This "Africans sold us" thing has been going on in the Americas for
generations among people of African descent and has to end now,
because it is simply inaccurate.
Those Africans didn't sell African Americans, but other Africans. They
sold themselves. That is it. You do not apologize to yourself, you
simply leam from your mistakes.
What unite us Africans and you African Americans is not the fact that
our ancestors sold your ancestors, but the fact that we have the same
ancestors.
Every time African Americans come to Africa they bring with them the
spirits of those Africans who lived and died with the hope that one
day they would see once again the brothers, sisters, children they
lost when they were taken from the shores of our Motherland.
If they came back to life those African ancestors would certainly run
to their villages, run to their children, brothers and sisters, and
certainly not to ask them to apologize for something most of them had
nothing to do with and brought on suffering into their lives. And
anyway, because they were Africa! they would certainly follow this
typical African proverb: "If you cut yourself with your own knife, you
don't throw it away; you wipe it and put it back into its sheath."
Courtesy:
www.thevoice.nl
The soaring death rate from HIV/Aids is bringing South Africa's burial
grounds crisis to a head.
An investigation of cemetery space in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, two of the
hardest-hit provinces, shows that cemeteries near to areas where the death
rate is highest have had to shut their gates, forcing more and more families
to opt for private and informal burials.
The sprawling cemetery which serves the populous Alexandra township, near
Sandton, is now full, as are Dobsonville and Doornkop cemeteries.
Of Johannesburg's 33 cemeteries only nine are operational. Soweto's Avalon
cemetery, which has the highest number of burials in South Africa, averaging
175 burials a week, is the only one left with enough space to last the next
10 years.
Newclare and New Roodepoort cemeteries will last only another two months.
Jenny Moodley, of the Johannesburg department of cemeteries and
crematoriums, said this week that four new cemeteries were being planned for
the outskirts of Johannesburg, including one at Midrand.
An amount of R34-million will be required to develop the cemeteries. Only R2
million has been granted.
But KwaZulu-Natal is still the hardest hit by the Aids pandemic, with 500
deaths recorded a day, over a third of which are Aids-related.
Umlazi cemetery, near Durban, built in 1972 and meant to reach its capacity
in 20 years' time, was full two years ago. So too are the cemeteries at
Lamontville, KwaMashu and Verulam. Chesterville will be full in one year and
Mobeni Heights in six months.
Royal Ntombela, the director of Durban's department of cemeteries and
crematoriums, said no new land had yet been set aside but a new cemetery at
Etafuleni, near Inanda, was being investigated by the town planning
department.
"There are no formal cemeteries in the south of Durban. We will be looking
at negotiating for tribal land with the inkosis," he said.
Informal burials are a major problem in KwaZulu-Natal. Hundreds of hectares
are simply dug up for grave sites, regardless of the ecological impact and
dangers of seepage into water supplies.
"This will have to stop," said Ntombela.
"There is to be a cut-off date, after which private burials on ground not
designated for that purpose will not be allowed."
However, this is easier said than done. With formal facilities for burial
virtually non-existent in rural areas and a culture that does not embrace
cremation, there is little option but to find alternative options to
official grave sites.
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