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Reflections on a president’s speech: Whose Lang was it anyway?

South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, tricky things, what i am watching

Reflections on a president’s speech: Whose Lang was it anyway?

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation last night. As he did - and this is not for the first time - i felt a sense of pride, the feeling of being led, a deep respect for the humility that was shown when he spoke about government miscommunicating and making mistakes, confusing messages, and contradictions. While he spoke, i jumped on to Facebook and simply wrote this: Such humility coming from Cyril Ramaphosa... [...]

By brettfish|2020-05-14T09:47:59+02:00May 14th, 2020|South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, tricky things, what i am watching|2 Comments

Vibing a vibe, vibeously [or how the english language bends to my will]

i like the english language. i like it to do my bidding! and so for years now i have played around with it, removing most capital letters [except for words associated with God like Love, Grace and Justice when i mean them in a God-related way way], changing nouns into verbs [see "vibe" and "vibing"] and other parts of speech, spelling words in my own unique, often phonetical way [thort for the week] or sometimes [...]

By brettfish|2013-02-11T01:27:21+02:00February 11th, 2013|activities, and other animals., silly things|6 Comments

i benefit from apartheid

a short while ago two South Africans sparked an international discussion about racism, guilt and responsibility when they printed and distributed forty t-shirts with the slogan 'I benefited from apartheid' written on them: well-known political satirist Jonathan Shapiro [aka Zapiro] came up with this minimalistic but powerful cartoon which expressed his take on the matter: are they right? yes, for sure, i definitely [...]

By brettfish|2013-01-09T03:19:44+02:00January 9th, 2013|challenging thorts, change the world, life|11 Comments

Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect: The story continues…

once upon a time i developed a bad pseudo afrikaans accent and an idea for a show that would warn people about the inherent dangers lurking behind innocent-seeming things [like paper, ice-cream and screaming "Lego" when someone who is dangling you over a cliff asks what you will give them if they pull you up to safety] and a few people started really enjoying these videos and some people even started sharing them with their [...]

By brettfish|2012-04-01T10:57:37+02:00April 1st, 2012|activities, and other animals., humour'ish|2 Comments