April 2007
(18th April 2007)
After attending a hygiene roadshow – with the costumed child-friendly characters of Hygienie and Kim McClean – in a primary school in Mayfair, we had some hours to spare before a possible but unconfirmed meeting with the Minister for Water Affairs. It was chucking it down so obviously we went to the Apartheid Museum. Trevor had ...
(17th April 2007)
It is I suppose inevitable that a first-time - or maybe an any-time - visitor to South Africa thinks about colour. Two colours, obviously. The two colours that me and Trevor display when we walk around together in public. The reason I've thought about that is that today as we walked through yet another shopping mall ...
(17th April 2007)
From The Sowetan, 27 March 2006 UNRULY COUNCILLOR IS DISMISSEDThe gun-toting and knife-wielding councillor Albert Khoza has been fired after he was found guilty on 7 charges at an interdisciplinary ...
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(14th April 2007)
The trip began so well. Queuing for the runway, my Emirates plane to Dubai suddenly stopped moving. For fifteen minutes there were regular clunking noises. The kind of clunking noises that would normally have me reaching for my supply of diazepam that I always keep in the seat pocket. For medical reasons – diazepam is great, ...