Love it but left it : left it but love it

Edito: Well dear friends and readers, today's posting marks the end of this blog. Originally created to accompany the build-up to the Rio Loco Festival, I had hoped it would become an informal forum/meeting place for South Africans all over the world,...

Edito: Many people, including Benjamin Pogrund, a former staunch opponent of apartheid and its concommitant oppression in South Africa, have fiercely contested that Israel practices apartheid on the grounds that the South African version was a deliberately...

Edito : First a little biography. Eleven years old, when in the boy scouts, I had gone camping at Bluegill Waters, a farm belonging to the Canin family, on the Springs road if I remember correctly. Our patrol camped in an old army tent that smelt of hot...

Edito: France is experiencing a strong right-wing drift at the moment with mass explusion of the Rom people from their miserable campgrounds around France. Most commentators believe it is a way of heading off the far right for the next presidential elections...

Edito : I spent five days in hospital in June for an operation. Once out of the anaesthesia I alternated reading and watching the elimination matches for the World soccer cup in South Africa. I stayed off work until the end of June and spent most of that...

Edito : have been ill with flu for awhile and not in the mood for blogging but do have the next posting in mind, a short account of books I've read since the Word Marathon in Toulouse. Many of these were by South African authors but not all. Watch this...

Edito : I got a tweet message that led me to Graeme William's site, see link below, _ Graeme Williams' site

Edito: I went to have a look a the ARTE LIVE link and discovered, what a joy, that it enables continous streaming, in particular of the concert by Freshly Ground, so get yourself a fresh cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy!!!

Edito:The following report was distributed by the Festival organisers yesterday in French (see link below the article). This is the English translation done by Mike Dickman: Mercredi 30 juin 2010 Rio Loco: Report on the South Africa edition, 17–21 June...

Edito: In his latest e-mail Ben Cousins referred me to reactions to his article in the Mail and Guardian, which you will find at : Mail and Guardian site