5 posts tagged with apartheid
There’s a news reader in my feed reader!
Two posts popped up in my feed reader yesterday with legendary news reader Riaan Cruywagen’s name in them, both linking back to this ‘words’ post, which is simply a republished list that was circulating via e-mail at the time.
Natually I clicked through and ended up watching a short (11 min) documentary film entitled “Don’t Shoot” … view full post
Groot Krokodil has died
Pieter Willem Botha, an icon of apartheid South Africa, unexpectedly passed away last night. He was instated the year before I was born and was the prime minister/state president I grew up with for 10 years of my childhood in a racially segregated country.I just read through some of the 400+ comments on the Inside IOL blog … view full post
Vuk’uzenzele! (Arise and Act!)
The following is selected extracts from an article in the latest issue (#59) of SA Good News, which summarises the past, present and future status of Brand South Africa. Please find a few minutes to read the entire article, and then forward it on to friends, family and colleagues.
Vuk’uzenzele! (Arise and Act!)
Apartheid, by its grand master plan to
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
Check out the archive of past Miss South Africa winners (courtesy of Louis Fourie), along with this article published in Generations (a genealogy newsletter) in 1999. I can only remember back to 1989 and Michelle Bruce. My tennis coach at that time told us she was his sister, and I believed him. Who knows!
11 years before that … view full post
Long Live gallery
Sarah has uploaded her photos from Sunday’s paintball game in Melkbos. Visiting her site reminded me of the Long Live gallery, a photographic exhibition by Raymond Preston.
a collection of 117 black-and-white photographs of South Africans – from leaders to ordinary people – caught up in the mayhem of apartheid and its collapse.
“South Africans