I crave the Good Life. I just want to make sure it is not only me enjoying it, but also all the gorgeous people I meet along the way through the world of Development and HIV-fighting, set in a changing adjusting diversifying crazy Jozi. That said – Neve
Champagne Heathen ranks 458 in Africa and 268 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 1703, and 1961 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 443 and 607 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Sometimes, when reading about the AIDS Denialism that was (is?) our government’s approach to HIV and AIDS, I get a lightbulb moment and understand what Mbeki was saying. Some of it anyway.I just had such a moment. I once was in an argument with someone about medicine, true health
How long does it take you to get over a job after being unemployed for 6 months?….uhh, what week are we in now?Less than 4 weeks!Helped along by the loss of First Pay Cheque by Admin; That I
Damn those alternative views!Damn those minority cultures sucking off our British-built land!If they are going to be here, let it be in the shadows! But damned if they can actually integrate. Because then they might actually influence us!Apparently, that is what is what the old government, run by John
Who needs Marxists when you have the comments sections of Mail & Guardian online articles!Wow. There are a whole heap of angry, irrational, refuse-to-see-anyone's-point-of-view-or-deny-the-absolution-of-mine South Africans about! And they all have access to the internet, all day, every day, with lots of spare time to read articles, comment, &
Since about the time that I started packing the suitcases for Oz, I have been hearing stories in the news about local idiots in Melbourne beating up Indian students.No one is too sure why. And everyone seems to have their own theory about it:-
I picked a fight with a room of Marxists the other night.Well, that goes straight onto my “Not To Do” list in future.They’d plastered posters of Madiba all over university campuses & I figured, lets do something different, check it out, see what Aussies are saying about SA and
After Aussie Day comes…. New Zealand Day!!!In very close, very lovely succession.A little more low key than the flag-caped BBQ-as-many-roo-loins-on-the-Yarra-banks-as-possible Australia Day.On this “5th Australian State” day, the Kiwi bbq never really gets going thanks to all the Kiwi beer tasting that requires priority.There are time-out lessons in lingo…
I am rich!I am respected!I have purpose!I. HAVE. A. JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YEHAEYHZEYAHEYAHEAJHEEYHAJJEYHAEYAKHDBAFRTYWEYEHEYEHAYEHA!Much of last night was spent with me grinning & saying, “Its ok babe, we can now afford that! I’m now rich! I have a job!”To his protests of “Well, actually, academia & your real research job doesn’t pay as
We woke up on Australia Day & thought “What a day for a holiday!! Yeeeeeeeesssss indeeeed. Austaaaalia Day!!! Yeah! Hmmm.... Dooby dooby dooo... ho hum.... Well, now what…”I had been warned that there are only 2 rules on this day.1. To do absolutely not a stitch or inch or
Disclaimer:This is for those low travel days. When all you see is the shite and home could Only Ever Oh Definitely Offer Better (Ha!). It completely recognises that this is one-sided, unfair and probably a pack of misguided lies. Well. Not lies. But narrow-minded and not-really-revealing-the-whole-story. (Only some of
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