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Thursday, March 13, 2008South Africa: Not a Great Place to be GayI subscribe to a number of RSS feeds that serve me up a regular dose of the news from South Africa. The news is startlingly violent and I normally dig past the stories of murders, attacks, and brutality to read the political stories--it’s not me nurturing a blind spot, but the violence is so much of the news that it sort of becomes distracting if you pay too much attention to it.
This story about “corrective rape” caught my eye, though.
There is no greater point to be made but that it remains a vicious world out there and we’re awfully lucky to be living in the developed, Western nations. Wednesday, May 23, 2007Speaking of South Africa (Because I Wanted To, Damnit)This article linked by Drudge sort of grabbed my attention this morning.
“Why did it grab my attention?” you ask. Because I spent a little quality time on the phone with a gentleman from Joburg yesterday and he was telling me that they were expecting incredibly low temperatures last night--something on the order of -4°, although I’m not sure if he was speaking in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Either way, much of southern Africa isn’t really big on central heating in their homes. Not that winter (June to August) temperatures don’t drop--South Africa isn’t as warm as many people might imagine. Still, the weather is typically moderate compared to, say, winters in Ohio. Not a huge story, really, but I find myself feeling a little tiny bit of sympathy for my friends in the area. Page 1 of 1 pages
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