Apartheid and green vomit
Fi will be in the office soon but we're just going into a meeting to thrash through ideas for this week. It's been a busy one as usual, and there are lots of ideas bubbling under.
With we're currently phone-bashing, looking for someone who lived in . Do let us know if you were there, or if you know of anyone who fled the regime.
And as of (three ambulances in one night - I'm not making this up!) we were wondering if any of you remembered seeing first time round? Did people run screaming from your cinema? Anyway we'd love to hear from you.
Or if you have a better idea for a story we should be covering tell us that too. And apologies if this site hasn't been updated as often as you'd have liked recently.
We're new to this blog malarkey and will try to do better.
All the best
Maria
It was wonderful to hear Bill Frankel and to hear about his work. One question though: before Dullah Omar died, he told me that IDAF had refused money to Poqo, a PAC linked movement responsible for violent activities in the Western Cape. His first commission as a young lawyer was to defend the Poqo people.
As for PW Botha, he was fortunate to die in his bed. He was one of the most uncompromisingly evil people in South Africa.
Thank you.
Complain about this postSusan de Villiers
Apart 8 or apart eight. Not apart hide.
Listen to the Afrikaans speakers. It's not difficult. The correct pronunciation is even a little ironic in English so why don't the media use it.
Complain about this postI found the interviews on apartheid interesting, but the transistion from that to roadkill was ridiculous. The final straw was the poem.
Complain about this postI have just returned from a week in Johannesberg. It was my first visit to South Africa. I didn't have time to see much while there but I was able to spend a morning in Soweto with a former Head Teacher from one of the townships as our guide. It is amazing to think that these townships are now tourist sites: good for us to see how little many aspects of township dwellers' lives have changed and yet, depressingly, have stayed the same. There are shanty towns still with no electricity. Staying in a wealthy town outside Johannesburg, I found the contrast humbling and troubling. I visited the spot where the first casualty of the 1976 Soweto Uprising took place. As a teacher, I was suddenly struck that my own children, and the children I teach have no knowledge of the long struggle of Black South Africans. "Apartheid", like "holocaust" should be a watch word for all of us. But where will our children learn about it?
Complain about this postHaving almost listened to some of the program on about four occasions. I have come to the definate conclusion Fi needs a sidekick, a "Comedy Dave" to Fi's "Chris Moyles".
Suggestions
Barry Scott (Comedy Barry)
Sid Little (Comedy Little)
Thaxin Shinawat (Comedy Thaxin Shinawat)
Quite like the show but its on to early. could you make it about noon?
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