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Blue Crush 2 – A kak look at Durban Written on January 20, 2012, by Nela.

Some times in life there are moments when I have to hold my head in disgust and wonder what the hell I did. This is one of those moments, gosh I regret it.

I have become a bit of a download whore, a product of super fast internet and copious amounts of free time. I recently was searching around the torrent site and downloaded Blue Crush 2. I was expecting bikinis and water but what I got was a narrow minded and pretty insulting view of South Africa from a fairy tale surfer’s point of view. Bad accents and heavy stereotypes are ripe in the movie but at least we get a few great views of the beach.

The story takes place in Durban when a Malibu surfer girl gets a full ride to a top school but ditches the opportunity to go to Durban to surf… not cliché at all. There is a black girl surfer, which is pretty weird; must have been set on 1 January.

If you have the opportunity to watch this…don’t

Rooinek on Gay Marriage Written on November 8, 2011, by Nela.

Recently I was asked the question – Do I support gay marriages? My answer was very simple, a person should be able to marry whoever or whatever you want as long as the rules are the same for everyone.

I always say that things should be fair, there has to be a set rule for everyone to live by. Without these rules there would be chaos, things would be like living in Zimbabwe. If you think you are above the rules then you should be kicked out and kicked in the ass, it’s that simple.

I don’t care if the church feels that it is unnatural, wasn’t it decided that we would no longer listen to religious views when making state decisions. I don’t care that parents feel it may be difficult why Timmy has two dads; that just proves a lack of parenting.

After all, shouldn’t his pretty lesbian be allowed love

A Rooinek’s guide to a protest march Written on November 2, 2011, by Nela.

Here are some tips for a successful protest march

1. Set realistic goals – If your crowd of protesters is out of their optimal fitness zone one should opt for a shorter march. There is no use in over exerting your followers and having some faint and/or die; dead people along the side of the road is tacky.
2. Take water – Water has been scientifically proven to be good for you, yes water like the stuff that comes out of the shower after you have sexual relations with an HIV positive person. If you intend to have a march make sure you have bottles of water or enough money to buy along the way.  Vodka and beer are not suitable substitutes.
3. Don’t do anything illegal – Marches are like a box full of cherry bombs, one spark and it all blows up in your face. It just takes one idiot to call a policeman a pig and a whole riot will ensue. This includes the singing of illegal songs.
4. Walk the whole way – there is nothing more futile than giving up half way. You will feel like the fat kid that walks off halfway through a race to buy a Bar one. This includes climbing into the back of a Mercedes Benz Vito while your supporters are walking.
5. Make sure you have a single message – People want to know what they are protesting for so it is important that they all be educated on the reason that they are giving up their precious time. You don’t want people to not know what’s going on and have to burn shirts of Presidents and such because they are oblivious to why they are really there.

Next time you are planning a march bear these in mind

Who’s head should roll for Bafana’s blunder? Written on October 12, 2011, by Nela.

With all the hatred towards Bryce Lawrence that has been going on we, as South Africans, have failed to pay full attention to the soccer. Bafana bafana did not qualify for the AFCON 2012, despite winning there group. By some fine print South Africa was robbed of the chance to place in the, less than prestigious, African tournament. Who should we blame for this?

I’ve noticed one think about South Africans, we always have someone to blame. Let’s investigate:

Q: Why is the government so kak?

A: Apartheid

Q: Why is there crime?

A: Apartheid

Q: Who killed Eugene Terreblanche?

A: Apartheid

Q: Why did we not beat Australia?

A: Bryce Lawrence

Can we really blame the organisers of African football for our stuff up? Well we are going to give it our best shot! We can create scapegoats from thin air, it’s what we do. It’s rare that we find anyone taking responsibility for their actions. If you ask a South African “How are you?” the standard response is “No complaints” which means things are boring because they can’t moan about something. I think we all thrive when things are going wrong; we all love that the newspapers are full of doom and gloom because it gives us something to moan about so that we can play the blame game.

If we look back in history South Africa was founded by a bunch of whiners. In 1654 ol’ Janneman Van Riebeck landed in the Cape to establish a refresher station for the Dutch East-India Trading company. What the history books don’t openly tell us is that ol’ Janneman hated it here. He filed for transfer after only two years; he wanted to get away from the place. The Groot Trek was because the Trekkers wanted to have their own independence, probably to moan about how kak the British rule was. There are so many cases that it would be impossible and boring to list them all.

I feel for this Bryce Lawrence guy, he stuffed up and he is paying the ultimate price. With the petition to have stop reffing Facebook Page growing over 50,000 strong in a matter of days it just proves that we can’t accept our fault. No one is looking at our handling errors or the fact that our kickers missed a few.

Back to the point at hand, soccer, perhaps we should stop blaming organisers and blame ourselves. I understand that the qualifying method is not according to FIFA outlines but still, is it that difficult to read the rule book? Pitso has had a tough job and bringing a bunch of guys together and unite them on the field. Must be tough for the amount of money he is getting paid; maybe he should take the R250,000 a month he is earning and invest in a book or two.

My point is this (quoting my parents now) “You stuffed up, get on with”. The old expression comes to mind, no use crying over spilt milk; well in this case you were given the milk on a silver platter and managed to kick it off in your fancy new boots.

RWC tears for SA Written on October 10, 2011, by Nela.

I was shattered when the final whistle sounded the end of the Springbok’s World Cup campaign. Like most South Africans I vowed to hate Australians for the next few months and went home to sulk, it was the responsible thing to do. Who’s to blame for this travesty?

Looking on Facebook I noticed that I wasn’t alone, many of my friends voiced their opinion on the match (using some unsavoury words). I don’t blame them. I was angry, hell I was fuming. How can we lose when we are the better team? I just think we went about things wrong this time around, but what do I know, I am no rugby expert.

It isn’t easy to win a World Cup. You can’t put a group of guys together and decide it’s time to win. We need the right personnel in the right place, peaking at the right time and I feel we just didn’t have it.  Our Super Rugby season was pretty kak, let’s not kid ourselves. The Stormers were good but the rest of the teams had an air of mediocrity about them. Our injury list going into the tournament was long
and star studded which relieved cracks during the tournament. All of them were also aggravated when playing the big boys of the pacific islands. Even our Tri Nations
left much to be desired, we were pretty kak there too.

As for Bryce Lawrence, well where to start. He definitely blew. He had an average game to say the least, but then again which Springbok can we say showed that he wanted to drink brandy and coke out of the Webb-Ellis Trophy. Big moments call for big presence and no one had that.

It’s time to build for the future and seeing the old-guard of Vic and John leave is sad but leaves excitement for the future. If Habana were to play in green and gold again I feel I might vomit a little bit. New coach and the glimmers of talent coming through like Lambie and Hougaard make me very pleased with the future.

Maybe our boys were just not the right crop to bring it home, it just wasn’t our time. As for Bryce Lawrence; we as a nation can’t blame him for losing us the World Cup! If we are going to blame one man, let’s blame Ard Matthews– he jinxed us all.

New sign outside Apple Written on October 6, 2011, by Nela.

Dalai Lama not welcome Written on October 6, 2011, by Nela.

I’m going to be that guy: I fully respect the decision to not allow a travel Visa to his holiness the Dalai Lama. I know, heavy criticism here we come. I fully defend the right of the South African government to deny an iconic figure a Visa to visit.

I’m sure he is a nice guy. He is the sort of a guy that will jump in front of a moving vehicle to save a kitten. I am not disputing his credentials as a human being but the fact of the matter is that he is considered an undesirable by the Chinese.

I see that the government is between a rock and a hard place and seeing the situation I feel that the right decision was made. The government should not give in to the requests of one man and most certainly not to the demands of a few people with candles outside parliament.

I feel that we should practice more caution with the number of VISAs granted and not turn the country into Paris Hilton’s bedroom,where everyone is allowed.

The ugly face of racism Written on September 20, 2011, by Nela.

We have seen a few instances of heavy racism within the borders of sunny South Africa and it is evident that the ugly monster that once ran rampant through the streets of the republic is not as dead as we thought it was. Maybe racism is not dead and dusted in South Africa and I think it is not all a bad thing.

Julius Malema recently went in for a disciplinary hearing where he learnt that singing a song about shooting an entire segment of the population is frowned upon (I assumed it was common knowledge). On the other hand Darren Scott has been fired from his position at Supersport for dropping the “K” bomb. People are shocked, seventeen years since the dawn of democracy there is still racism (gasp of horror). If history has taught us one thing it is that racism brings hate and hate brings suffering. Here’s the stick in the spoke of South Africans, racism is not as a result of Apartheid but is rather as a result of human nature. At what point do we as a nation stop blaming Apartheid for every racist comment and realize that maybe it is an inevitable human flaw.

I feel sorry for Darren Scott, he just let his emotions get the better of him. If he had called the guy a MF (ask your parents what it means – rhymes with brothertrucker) that would have been fine. Instead, in his frustration, Darren searched his vocabulary for the most hurtful word he knew and, my gosh, was I a hurtful word.

I love democracy, when you are told something is wrong you can always appeal it. It was never like that in my house. If I chirped my mother my dad whacked me, there was no way I could appeal it and take the matter up with my grandfather. I just wore the pain and never did it again. Therefore I find it ironic that Julius Malema is destined to be the next leader of the people but refuses to learn after all the whacks he has taken. If I went on record singing “Throw cell phones at all Indian people” I would get into a lot of trouble and, when reprimanded, I would not dispute it.

I am not racist; well I don’t think I am. I do stereotype though, we all do. When I meet Americans I assume they are either gun-slinging madmen in search of oil or dirty liberal hippies. When I meet a normal one I always try find the catch, even though there rarely is one. South Africa has been a democracy for 17 years which is very young as far as experience as a nation is concerned. How long has America been a democracy? Much longer and I can assure you there are one or two racists in that place. Asians (like from Asia not your local Chinese restaurant worker) are extremely racist and pretty open about it.

What happens in twenty years when two young boys won’t like each other because of the colour of their skin in a grade one classroom just outside Ventersdorp? Will we still blame Apartheid? I hate to say it but some form of racism is part of us, deep wired into our society. For example, I can’t stand the French..

Russians Written on September 16, 2011, by Nela.

Happy Spring day Written on September 1, 2011, by Nela.

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