Eish! It's Because I'm South African

Mom and Dad tell me that sooner or later every child needs to learn to wee in the Big Toilet. I guess my sooner or later has come.

They have swapped my cosy nappies for pull-ups that I wear when I go to school, and now they also send me to school with underpants. I don’t [...]

This is the ANC Statement on it’s Election Policy for Education that can be found here
The doors of learning and cultures shall be opened!
Education is a means of promoting good citizenship as well as preparing our people for the needs of a modern economy and a democratic society. Building on the achievements in education, the [...]

Bob Mugabe had to amend the constitution of Zimbabwe to allow him to remain in power as president, long after he had reached his intellectual sell-by-date. (Before this, as in all “democracies”, there was a limit to the number of terms which a president could serve). Having changed it once, he did it again. Then he was on a roll. The rest of the story we all know very well. With hindsight, we can see that had he been prevented from taking the first step, the whole sub-Saharan part of Africa would have been spared quite a lot of bother.

Hello Again, I had another busy day school again today and the morning was not nice. When daddy dropped me off it was raining so I could not ride my bike. But it cleared up a little later and before Nap time I went for a ride.
Today we learnt about animals at school, so dad [...]

After the weekend I had with my tonsils and my throat, I am happy that I went back to school today. My teachers missed me, and I missed riding the bikes in the play area outside.
My throat feels much better now after all that white anti-biotic medicine that Mommy has been giving me. The only [...]

Hello Again. I have just a weekend I would rather forget, since I am still so young I am sure I will forget it soon, but it wasn’t nice.
On Saturday dad and I watched as the Sharks forgot to turn up to the rugby when they played the reds, and that was not great. I [...]

Table Mountain has been chosen as South Africa’s representative in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition, which will see the top natural sites of 223 countries being whittled down to 21 finalists and ultimately to seven winners in an exercise in global democracy expected to draw over a billion participants.

The 2009 wine grape harvest should amount to 1,300,202 tons, according to industry estimates (producer cellars and viticultural consultants) on 16 February 2009. This is 21 675 tons (1,6 per cent) smaller than the January 2009 estimate, and 8,5 per cent smaller than the 2008 record harvest.

Children are the main victims of pneumococcal diseases such as meningitis and pneumonia, and those who survive are often left intellectually impaired, suffer hearing loss or a legacy of seizures.

A little while ago Mom and Dad were busy cleaning up around the house and didn’t have much time to play with me while they were busy, so I decided to take a look around.

There is a room behind our kitchen that I think they call the pantry, I don’t know why they call it [...]