Nelson's post pretty much echoes the thoughts of many a literate and educated Black South African, myself included. Violence and torture seem to be so deeply ingrained in the South African mindset that the only way that our society wants to operate is a 'kill or be killed' motivation. 

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My friend. Nelson Taimo wrote a rather thought provoking post on Facebook that I thought best to share with you.

"I can believe the things this world brings can't believe that people that have been oppressed all their lives can turn around and do the same to others even though some of the countries these people are from helped to liberate these same people from the Chains of Apartheid.

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What media these days are informing your opinion of the world around you as a youngster in South Africa? Is it still tv and radio or one of the new media that gives you the perspectives off which to base your own views? These are two questions that I've been milling in my head after watching another thrilling episode of Carte Blanche last Sunday night. I was actually more astounded that the medium, which I once thought to be the all-consuming 'sheep' machine, actually engaged me for more than an hour and a half in one, plain sitting. Yes, I really did sit and watch everything that flickered across the tube for that long, a definite first in a while for my degenerating attention span, in the age of the mighty Internet.  read more here »

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I was doing a little spring cleaning this past weekend and came across a packet that contained all my old pairs of spectacles that I used to use from the age of 14 because I had bad eyesight.

I remember my first pair of glasses and how funny they felt sitting precociously on the bridge of my 'not-so-straight' nose...It felt so weird and awkward, but the fact that I could see through them a world that was most of the time fuzzy and out of foucs without them.  read more here »

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I got sent a really good survey today about how we can all pitch in to 'cool the earth' so to speak. The survey is being run by Carte Blanche in effort to cover the growing concerns that South Africans have on climate change and how it's affecting our immediate environment.  read more here »

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I've just come back from Durban where I paid tribute to one of the remarkable woman in my life, my late grandmother, Alumel Pushpa Naidu. My gran passed away in November last year after a long, trying 3 months in hospital due to aggravated illness. This past weekend, my family and I honoured my gran with prayer as is Tamil custom.

It has been the start of a week of remberances for me as the lead up to the 6th anniversary of September 11th, 2001 suicide bombings are upon us. It is unbelieveable that in my first year at Rhodes University, as a journalist-in-training, that I would be exposed to the biggest and most bold act of 'terrorism' the world has seen yet.  read more here »

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While browsing the latest headlines a few weeks back, I came across a really great project that has been embarked upon by Motherland Isiko TV, also known as miTV for those of us in the social media sphere. The project endeavours to teach 1 million South Africans the Zulu language in an effort to further break down the barriers that many of us face by not being able to speak an African language.  read more here »

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