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And we are good at assault. But South Africa is good at other things as well. Like having the biggest range of flowers, the largest man made hole. And arguably the worlds best rugby team.
So why focus on the negative?

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This weekend, due to the Football World Cup, history will be made when the Blue Bulls play the Crusaders in the Super 14 Rugby tournament in Soweto.

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The Bulls, from Pretoria, traditionally are seen as the most Afrikaner of all South Africa Rugby Unions. The game will be an opportunity to smash or reinforce [...]

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A friend Lizelle living in the Netherlands sent me this. A song called Zuid-Afrika about the Football World Cup.
Moenie my glo as ek sê die Hollanders is sokkerbefok nie. Check maar gewoon hier.
Not quite Die Antwoord. The Dutchies are one of the teams with a chance of lifting the cup.

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# Slabbert: “The apartheid regime had oppressive stability. We now have a vibrant civil society”.
# Slabbert: “Crime is also a form of civil society participation, a negative one, but riddled with entrepreneurs.”
# Slabbert: South Africans should “not to fall for an invented history”. Including the myth that Cuban forces had [...]

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My father (75) and his wife were attacked in their home last night. They are ok.

Readers are leaders, originally uploaded by Wildebeast1.

A minor scuffle eschewed, and my fathers wife, a formidable woman pushed at least one attacker (who was scrawny and young) across a table.
My fathers wife said that just yesterday she received a text [...]

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IOL reports today:
The PAC has come under fire after messages urging the killing of whites were posted on its Facebook site.
The party says it will not remove the offending posts.
The messages, which said an army of about 3 000 people was standing by, ready to kill white people within 24 hours if requested to do [...]

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This morning I had a phone call from Adriaan, a good old friend in South Africa. Chris Erasmus a very good friend of ours had apparently taken his own life.

I had a good cry. Chris hitch-hiked with us to Tanzania, Chris gave me lifts down the Ben Schoeman highway on his superbike. He celebrated the [...]

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