Brian Watkyns, the local DA councillor for the Pinelands area, has just sent out his most recent Newsletter Pinelands Focus Update Number 79. In it, he mentions that an article appeared in Die Burger newspaper earlier this year. It took me a while to find the Afrikaans version of the article, titled “Pinelands en die…
I found the following insightful analogy on the Facebook site of Helen Zille, our new Premier of the Western Cape. One of her fans had posted this comment. I thought it was quite clever, so I’m borrowing it to post on my blog: “I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch…
My cousin has just told me a most disturbing story of promises broken and trust betrayed that I want to share with you because it ruffled my tailfeathers too. Sometime at the beginning of this year, a gentleman by the name of Ari Seirlis was asked by the Independent Democrats to stand as a candidate…
It is a sad indictment of the priorities of our ANC led government that they have, once again, allowed money to overrule morality. The history of our country – one of the richest and most beautiful on the African continent – has not been a happy one. Since the bad old days of colonialism, it’s…
Grains of Sand 