Eish! It's Because I'm South African

This is a letter written to the Guardian Newspaper by a recent Nigerian visitor to our Shores, I found this a fascinating read.

South African experience
SIR: On Thursday October 1, 2009, the National Chairman of our great party Chief Bisi Akande; the Lagos State Chairman of the Party in Lagos, Chief Dele Ajomale; his wife; the [...]

A woman, with a winning bid of more than R1-million, secured the kiss –and the alleged meeting with Mandela, which now seems uncertain.

Almost a quarter of the countries under eighteens are growing up without their biological parents. The number has been growing by about 100 000 a year, from 3.7 million in 2002 to 4.2 million in 2007. Read that back to yourself slowly. Almost 25% of a Nations Future is growing up without the love and guidance of their Biological Parents. If I just think about my own life without my own two kids aged 2 and 7, then that statistic alone leaves a big hole in my Gut. To stop and think that 25% of the Teens and Pre-Teens in this country do not know what the conventional meaning of the word “Family” means saddens me greatly.

In an effort to celebrate the legacy of South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela, 46664 and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are urging people all over the world to join them in a bid to create an official Mandela Day, which would be held on Mr Mandela’s birthday each year, July 18.

“Mr Mandela has spent 67 years making the world a better place. We’re asking you for 67 minutes.” Nelson Mandela turns 91 on 18 July, and the call has gone out for people everywhere to celebrate his birthday – and the global launch of Mandela Day – by acting on the idea that each person [...]

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is among the world’s most respected people according to UK citizens.

It’s hard to disagree with the DA Leader Helen Zille when she makes comments like “The ANC has failed Julius Malema and his entire generation. While Julius was getting a ‘G’ for woodwork in a disadvantaged school, the ANC leaders (for whom he is prepared to kill), were making sure that their own children escaped the consequences of the ANC’s education policy,” Zille said in her weekly newsletter South Africa Today.