Rod MacKenzie's Blog, page 15

On the power of owning property in SA or elsewhere

Alasdair and Thomas ran up from Carlos Rolfe's Pan in the Boksburg farming area, caked with mud from wrestling in the water and trying to build a raft and get the thing to float. Bums bobbing in the sun, they knelt on the bamboo raft and dug in the water on the sides whilst the [...:]

Forget ANCYL…what freaks out South African children?

"Today's children are worried about more than just their homework and peer pressure — they are also worried about terrorism and climate change and whether there will be a future for their own children. These are just some of the serious issues a group of more than 170 New Zealand children have cited as [...:]

Volcanic eruptions and the end of the world

The eruption of volcano EyjafjallajÖkull has had its fun side. John Cleese allegedly paid a taxi driver $5 100 to travel 675 miles across a portion of Europe because he could not catch his plane. Oh, it was a car pool of people. As already argued, that taxi ride could be movie-making stuff, filled with one-liners. [...:]

Crying for my country

I watch the welts appear through the boy's underwear. The boy's head is caught between a grinning, stocky policeman's thighs which imprison the boy and keep him bent over. In front of the boy stands another policeman, face furrowed in thought as he wields the cane. The cane comes hissing down on the boy's [...:]

AWB's Visagie and SA's urgent need for communication among all parties

So Andre Visagie, secretary-general of the AWB, really lost his cool recently on e.tv to the delight of the international media, especially the BBC. Addressing Visagie in the talk show, campaigner for human rights Lebohang Pheko was passionately asking a string of perfectly legitimate questions about the poverty and oppression of (largely black) farm [...:]