Holiday Inn Express Sandton-Woodmead
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Mandela! Mandela! Mandela!
... concourses to take in a little culture. First impression - their beer here is good and cheap! their currency is the Rand, which is trading for 7.5 Rand to $1. My 20 oz Castle Milk Stout beer was 20 Rand so you do the math. And that is airport prices. Second is that white S.A. accents just took over as the coolest accents as far as I'm concerned. Its as if ...
Township living
... forever signify this day can be seen in any apartheid museum. It takes on the same dark, haunting emotion of The Girl In The Picture shot of the South Vietnamese napalm attack in the early 70's. One that once you see it, the painful image of intense human suffering at the hands of other fellow humans is forever embossed in your mind. A photo like this captures more than just that specific moment, but the full scope of the atrocity and extended anguish that moment will ...
Back to South Africa, after 4 day trip to S
... Park is home to 50,000 elephants. We must have seen 1,000 of them along the delta. Also, we saw lots of hippos, wart hogs, crocodiles all sorts of deer, vultures, eagles, water buffalo etc etc. Our skipper was able to take the boat right alongside these animals, giving us some great shots. We saw several crocs eating away at a dead elephant. It was a great experience – sitting on a boat drinking beer and being taken alongside a huge number of ...
"Think occasionally of the suffering..."
... meat comes from, you would probably not like the farmer so much.
The second experiment to look at is Phillip Zimbardo's prison experiment in the basement of Standford where students were either prisoners or guards. All wore sunglasses and had the same outfits and hair in order to make everyone anonymous. Because of this anonymity, the guards became so cruel to the prisoners that the experiment had to the be stopped before anyone got seriously hurt. When there is ...
Four Rand Ninety per International Postcard Stamp
... read an article from the UN about what defines a "human rights defender". In the same day I read an article about Malcolm X and how he claimed to be a human rights activist instead of civil rights activist because he advocated for going outside of the system, the government, in order to achieve your human rights. One can only achieve civil rights through the system and that's not enough. In this demand to bypass law and government, he justifies his idea that ...