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Recalled

My husband’s handiwork. He’s a big South Park fan. 

The term ‘recall’ makes me think of defective seatbelts or leadpainted alphabet blocks. 
We are living in interesting times.

The reluctant tagger- Proudly SA- the last i promise (maybe)

“A Proudly South African meme inspired by EXMI
Rules:
Link back to the Meme creator - Caz
Link back to the person who tagged you – this girlie here.
Give at least 5 reasons why you love SA
Let me know once you’ve done it.”

Our country is a troubled teenager. Its soul wrestles and sweats with the burly demons of crime, poverty and corruption. It thrashes with poor service delivery, reckless political mouthpieces, unemployment, class struggle and HIV/Aids.

But it still believes; this teenager harbours hope.
And I still believe, though on some days, it gets a bit hard to. But that is the nature of Faith.

And with that, I give you 5 reasons why I love South Africa:

  1. Our freedom of expression/religion. I can be Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Taoist, Bhuddist, Wiccan, whatever. I can wear the symbols of my faith freely and there is no obstacle to my practice.
  2. We all go on about what a beautiful country this is, because, what do you know,  it really is a beautiful country. Click here for pictures the husband took over at Chapmans Peak, Cape Town. That’s just one place.
  3. Our internet access is not censored or restricted. (But we’d really like more bandwidth please)
  4. We managed a fairly peaceful transition into democracy back in 1994, when the world thought we’d burn each other up. And that gives me real hope for our future.
  5. We are a nation of creatives and achievers: in the arts, technosphere and on the sports field. 
Your turn.

It’s been a while since I spread on some ad-jam…

Now, I know you’re thinking this one’s old-hat, but an office conversation today totally inspired me to come up with this little production. Thank you Obie.

Photographic sources: For our Main man Jay-Zee and the sheeken for the eeten

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