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Sunday, May 30, 2010

World Cup Teams Starting to Land And The Blue Bulls' 2nd Bite of Soweto

* The World Cup national soccer teams starting to arrive in Mzansi.
This week - on Wednesday - Australia will be the first team to arrive.Brazil is expexted to
be here on Thursday.Denmark and Argentina are expected on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
If we - the people of Mzansi - ever needed any further convincing that the World Cup is here these landings of the actual players,as opposed to fans,should do it for us.
We extend our warmest welcome to the cream of world footballers and their respective fans.

"Sekunjalo."



* The Blue Bulls rugby team winning their Super 14 Final in Soweto.
The Bulls yesterday defeated the Western Stormers by 25-17 points at the Orlando Stadium.
This win by the Blue Bulls was fine.Congratulations to them.
But for us residents of Soweto the real joy came from seeing our white compatriots coming to 'ekasi' to watch a sports game.The Bulls and their mainly white fans were coming to Soweto for the second time nogal.They also played their Super 14 semi-final game at the same stadium.
These two peacefull visits to a township have hopefully banished forever the myth that the townships are dangerous places and are therefore not to be visited.The scenes of white Bulls fans hanging out with Soweto residents before and after the rugby game were some of the most moving.This free mingling of black and white was a South Africa bo-Mandela envisioned way back when they started their long road to freedom.


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THANK YOU UNIVERSE.THANK YOU FOR MY 'FEEL GOOD MOMENTS'.


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Our FEEL GOOD poem of the week:


Mzansi Welcomes You
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Welcome world.
Welcome to the land of Madiba.
The land of a year-long summer.
Welcome to Tutu's rainbow nation.
Black,white,coloured,indian.
Who cares?
Mzansi citizens we all are.
Welcome to the Southern most part of Africa.
Africa still it is.
While here enjoy the football.
While at it, take in the beautiful Mzansi sights.
Welcome world.

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Support for Benny McCarthy And Favourite Police Officers Going Up

* The calls from most local coaches for national team striker - Benny McCarthy - to be included in the final 23 man Bafana Bafana squad.The coaches believe that Benny can help Bafana Bafana score more goals.The goal scoring department is where Bafana are found most wanting.
These calls for Benny to be included in the World Cup squad are made despite the fact that he is not featuring regularly in his own team - West Ham United - in the English Premier League.He also appears to be a bit overweight.
Statistically speaking,though, Benny appears to be our best bet for scoring goals in this World Cup.He is the top goal scorer for the national side.And he has also scored in all the World Cups in which South Africa has appeared.
So we also add our voices for him to be included in the final World Cup squad.The current striking force has shown what it can do.We now want to see if Benny can add to the tally of goals.Goals are much needed for our progression to the second round.



* Meeting again one of the police officers who looked after us while I was in detention.Mr Mlondobozi was one the really nice officers.
I 'bumped' into him in the corridors of the Protea Police station.Needless to say,we were both very happy to see each other.He asked how my case went.In turn I asked what's up with the 'private' dress.He said he was now a detective.He now no longer has to wear a police uniform.When we first met he was actually still a constable.
I was delighted to see that something good has happened to 'our man' since we last saw each other.He had moved up.


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Our FEEL GOOD poem of the week:


Come As You Are
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Come Benny.
Come as you are.
A goal drought.
A dearth in big matches.
Come Benny.
And give us goals.
Unfit for matches.
Overweight too.
But come.
Come as you are.
Benny in the 18 area.
Benny halakasha.
Ja TKZ.
Come Benny.
Just the way you are.


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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Chelsea FC's Historic Double And Barcelona's FC's 2nd In a Row

* Chelsea Football Club in England winning a 'double' in the English F A Premier League for the first time in the club's history.Chelsea won the English FA Cup yesterday by beating Portsmoth FC by 1-0.Last week they wrapped up the Premier League by pipping Manchester United to the post.The FA Cup plus the Premier League is usually refered to as a 'double'.To win these two trophies in one season is considered a big achievement by any club.
This bit of history making by Chelsea FC made us feel good here in the FGM.Chelsea is one the teams we admire in the England.We love how the owner - Mr Abramovich - has created this cosmopolitan side since he bought the club.
A pleasing footnote in this triumphant Chelsea team being the fact that the winning goal in the F A Cup Final was scored by Didier Drogbar who is from the Ivory Coast and is one of Africa's best exports.


* Barcelona FC - our other favourite football team in Europe - winning the Premier League in Spain for the second consecutive year.
The Barca coach - Pep Guardiola - now having a 100% record as far as La Liga is concerned.In his two years as coach of a La Liga side(Barcelona) he has won the the league in both seasons.This season Barcelona won the La Liga with the highest number ever of accumulated league points - 99.
Our wish was for Barca to make more history by becoming the first European club side to defend the Champion's League trophy.With their brand of thrilling and entertaining football one never tires of watching them play.But ofcourse they became unstuck against Inter Milan in the semi-finals.
We would,nevertheless,still choose to follow Barcelona over any other club side in Europe.Maybe even in the world.

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Our FEEL GOOD poem of the week:


Tasting The 'Double'
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It tastes good.
It tastes sweet.
It's the 'double'.
The FA,
Plus the league titles.
Now we know.
We know what Man U knows.
What Arsenal knows.
It is the 'double'.
And it tastes delicious.
Now we wonder.
Wonder what the 'treble' tastes like.
FA,the league and Europe.
All in one season.
That must be something.
And that,coach,is for next season.


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Sunday, May 9, 2010

The Return of 'WHEN WE WERE BLACK' And Cheaper Megabytes

* The TV drama series 'When we were Black' being back on our screens.It is screened on SABC 1 on Thursdays at 8.30pm.
Yes,it is a repeat.But repeats of this quality are always,always welcome.
This series is mainly about our recent dark past here in South Africa.But it is not just about apartheid,it is also about township life during this period of the 70s.I like how it covers the different strands of life in a typical township.You have your freedom fighters,bo-Modise.Then young lovers like bo-Fistos whose lives revolve just around being in love and his passion for the planetary system.You also have the 'small time tsotsi' element,who take out their frustration with the 'system'on fellow township residents.
In this past Thursday's episode I was really blown away by how 'umfundisi' did his bit to conscientise his congregation about taking action.He said there is a 'promised land' waiting for the people of Mzansi and they now have to 'take action' to get to this land.This analogy was totally out there.
The acting in here is sometimes so mesmerising you just don't want an episode to end.
The director and creator of this series - Khalo Matabane - has done a superb job in this recreation of our past.

"May you continue to entertain and make us think ntate Matabane."



* The movement towards cheaper internet gaining momentum.The country's two biggest network providers - MTN and Vodacom - suddenly announcing cheaper deals for their subscibers who use the internet.MTN's radio advert says something about one surfing(in their underwear) the internet the whole day for only R50.While Vodacom's print advert promised up to 60% of free megabytes for each category of megs bought.For example,if one buys 20 megs for R28 you get an additional 10 megs for free.
This trend towards more affordable internet can only be good.


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Our FEEL GOOD poem of the week:

Re-runs We Want
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Repeats we can use.
Those we love.
Re-runs we demand.
Go ahead SABC.
Bring them back.
"The Death Of A Queen"
"When We Were Black."
You name them.
We want them.


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Sunday, May 2, 2010

South African Flags Everywhere And A Beautiful Version Of the 'Shout' Song

* The appearance - almost suddenly - of our national flag everywhere.Our flag is being displayed by Mzansi citizens in increasing numbers.And this is all good.It is like we have all just woken up to the beauty not only of our flag,but to the beauty of our country.
The wearing of the flag on cars on our roads is my favourite sight.If it is not the flag itself pinned on some part of a car,it is the side mirror covers that MINI SA pioneerd.
All in all it looks like the 'Raise The Flag' campaign - initiated by companies like bo-MINI -is going well.When the world comes to visit in June it will find a country united.And not just united,but united behind our national soccer team - Bafana Bafana.
There are now efforts to link this raising of our flag initiative to that of the learning of all the words of our national anthem.
All of these efforts to make us to be proud of our country are very commendable indeed.



* South African musicians recording one of the better versions of the old Tears For Fears song 'SHOUT'.Be it the singing on the song or the rapping on it,it is all done excellently.On this SA version I got to personally appreciate how powerful and 'consciousness raising' the 'Shout' lyrics are.
This re-doing of 'Shout' here in SA is part of bigger initiative by SA musicians to raise awareness about crime in the country.The musicians - plus other SA celebrities - are urging us 'blow the whistle' on instances of crime being planned that we know of.
We are also encouraged to help raise funds towards projects that will help to fight crime.We can do this by downloading this SA 'Shout' version by sending an sms('Shout') to this number 33335.This sms will cost you R20,which will go to the Shout Foundation that will oversee these crime fighting projects.
We want to say 'nice one' to musicians Danny K and Kabelo who came up with this 'Shout' idea.


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Our FEEL GOOD poem of the week:


Raising The Flag
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Raise it.
Raise our nations' flag.
Raise like never,
Never before.
Display it.
Display our nations' colours.
The colours of red,white,green.
The colours gold,black and blue.
Raise it.
Raise the flag to say:
"I am proudly South African."
"I am fully behind Bafana."
"Welcome world citizens."
Raise it.
Raise the flag.


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