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The Next Scramble For Africa...

Posted 03-25-2009 at 11:34 PM by Boerseun (Boerseun's potjie stand)
...is being won by China. Hands down.

As you may have read in the newspapers the last week, South Africa made a right ass of itself handling the whole Dalai Lama issue.

Little itty bitty background:

South Africa is hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup. So, running up towards that completely overrated, overhyped, unnecessary and incredibly expensive event, together with the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, SA decided to hold a Peace Conference whereby sport is...
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Motivational Posters...

Posted 05-21-2008 at 02:08 AM by Boerseun (Boerseun's potjie stand)
Motivational posters?

Don't get me started. What a load of crap.

The only good thing to come from them, is all the hilarious ripoffs.

Here's my current favourite: Super Saiyan!
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Popular Culture Rant...

Posted 05-21-2008 at 01:27 AM by Boerseun (Boerseun's potjie stand)
So, I was walking to the shop the other day, and passed a lady wearing a top with the words "GUESS" embroidered on the front. So I said "Well, double D?"

At the counter, the young man doin' time at the cash register had a shirt on with the words "BILLABONG" written all over it. It didn't improve his performance in processing my order.

Going out, I noticed a woman swinging a handbag over her shoulder, with the words "GUCCI" on the...
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South African Xenophobia

Posted 05-20-2008 at 03:21 AM by Boerseun (Boerseun's potjie stand)
Don't know if you guys have been following it in the news lately, but over the last few days, my country has gone apeshit on anybody not from here. Okay, not all of us, but the part who makes for good and gory newspaper fodder and bloody videoclips did.

Basically, South African blacks in the informal settlements have gone mob-crazy on Zimbabweans, Mozambicans, Nigerians, Somalis, basically, open season was declared on anybody not from South Africa.

Their execution method...
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