No irony here. I just like this PBS Frontline The World episode and the story’s protagonist. It was aired for the first time a while ago–actually in October 2005–but which I only got to see last week via Miro, the free open source Internet TV. No snarky comments from me this time. I know. I [...]
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Why I love South Africa #101
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Miro, open source, PBS Frontline The World, South Africa, television, water on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Design like you give a damn
Posted in architecture, tagged Architects for Humanity, architecture, Cameron Sinclair, design, Design like you give a damn on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Been checking out these the work of this NGO for a while. Love their work. Basically a global network of architects working with poor communities around the world. And I mean working with, not for, communities. The above is their slogan. Here‘s a PBS documentary on their work in India (I just saw this). Separately [...]
You can’t make this stuff up #102
Posted in television, Uncategorized, tagged Exiled!, Kenya, Masai, MTV, Nicole Ritchie, Paris Hilton, Super Sweet Sixteen, television, You can't make this stuff up on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“My Super Sweet 16,” was an annoying MTV series that “revels in the excess of coming-of-age birthday parties for the rich crowd.” Now MTV have come up with an even better idea. Some of the kids have not grown up or are worse than annoying now. To teach these kids life lessons, what do you [...]
Robert Mugabe wasn’t such ‘a bad dictator’
Posted in politics, tagged book reviews, Books, Heidi Holland, Robert Mugabe, Robert Mugabe's biography, The National Abu Dhabi, Zimbabwe on August 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A quite lengthy book review I did on Heidi Holland’s “psycho-biography” of Zimbabwean “President” Robert Mugabe, Dinner with Mugabe, was just published in the newly established Abu Dhabi-based, English language newspaper, The National (kind of an Al Jazeera English of print in the Middle East). The title of the book, refers to Holland’s first fateful [...]
When South Africa was the story of the Olympics
Posted in sports, tagged Beijing Olympics, China, Natalie du Toit, Olympics, Olympics and politics, Oscar Pistorius, sports on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the Beijing Olympics now over one thing that stood out for me, is that South Africa (stuff to do with that country, if you don’t get it by now, is a major feature of this blog) hardly featured in Western reporting from and about the Beijing Games. Other African countries and athletes, fared marginally [...]
Why I love South Africa #100
Posted in South Africa, tagged racial violence, racism, South Africa, violence against farmworkers, Why I love South Africa, You can't make this stuff up on August 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A white South African farmer who was sentenced to life imprisonment for feeding a black worker to a pack of lions was released on parole on Thursday after serving 3 years in jail… Little more than [Nelson] Chisale’s skull, shards of bone and a finger were found at an enclosure for rare white lions. Source.
Why Africa and South America have won so few medals at the Olympics
Posted in sports, tagged athletics, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Ethiopia, Kenya, medal count, Olympics, sports, Why have African and South American countries won so fe on August 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that at that point (Thursday) African and South American countries had together won only nine of the 237 available gold medals, two fewer than Australia. “Overall, South America, Central America and Mexico had won 18 medals out of more than 700 awarded so far, while Africa had won 23 — [...]
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