Bryntirion House Pretoria
195 Pine Street, Arcadia Pretoria, Gauteng, 0001, South Africa
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Three month catch up!
... appreciated a shower so much!
Now George in in Durban at the climate change congress facilitating all the delegates from NZ. This is for two weeks so I flew down and spent a few days with her this week - it was our wedding anniversary after all! We decided that the reason Durban is the holiday destination is that is has a beach and warm sea. Apart from that, there is no great reason. It has a fantastic Water Park and sealife centre ...
How to survive in South Africa
... days in clinics.
Die Studenten hier sind vom theoretischen Wissen her krass fit! In der Klinik, in der ich gerade bin (outpatients = Ambulanz), schmeissen die im Endeffekt die komplette Sprechstunde und der diensthabende Arzt ist nur dafuer da, Eintraege abzusegnen oder bei komplizierten Faellen zu helfen. Prinzipiell wird auch bei jedem Patienten ein blood smear ( = Blutausstrich) angefertigt, der mikroskopisch untersucht wird, da es hier sehr viele ...
The Long and Short of It
... struggling for clarity.
Now perhaps the orientation organizers realized this and planned to include a number of fantastic presentations in the hopes that one or two would stick, but even if this wasn't the expectation, it swiftly became my reality.
The focus of the orientation was to get us up to speed on the quality of education in South African schools in the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. As the nine of us were to be split into groups ...
Lion Park
... 8217;re not albinos. Their white fur comes from a genetic defect and they have to be protected because they’re not as adept hunters as their golden relatives (limited ability to hide in the savannah) and hunters prize their rare white fur. Amazing!
The last enclosure hosted a magnificent golden male lion with the more common dark mane and his brood of lionesses. Being able to drive through the lion areas really made the park worth visiting in my opinion. ...
Labor unions
... could take place. One of the goals of apartheid was to keep blacks separated into different tribal groups, to encourage infighting among different cultural and language groups in order that they would and could not come together against the government. It didn’t work. Emma helped organize trade unions and specifically worked on women’s rights. She was directly responsible women earning maternity rights, no matter their color. She also fought ...


