Beyond all the big state hob-knobbing in Asia and the canned prophecies of American central bankers, something important took place today largely outside the realm of mainstream media obsession: the new head of Greenpeace International, Dr. Kumi Naidoo, finished his first day on the job. Dr. Naidoo, whom I had the pleasure of hearing speak [...]
|
|||||
|
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Cape Town, South Africa, March 2007 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Sorting [...] .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
For some strange reason, many people seem to take a perverse pride in the poor driving habits of their respective societies. Multiple locales are locked in [...] .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Star Wars meets the Matrix meets safari camping in Damaraland, Namibia.
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa People in Namibia seem on the whole to be warm, friendly and quite laidback, in marked contrast to the low trust environment of urban South Africa. However, I must say that the people form only a minor portion of the memories I’ve kept from my ten days in the country- it’s not due to the [...] It is not very difficult to grasp the rationale behind the popular pronouncement that South Africa is “not really Africa”. Here, a relative abundance of infrastructure and resources allows the foreign visitor easy access to stereotypical ‘African’ sights and symbols without the least bit of discomfort. The continent’s famed wilderness and wildlife can be encountered [...] cross-posted at Urban Impressions From a post-Mozambique perspective, South Africa has been quite a show. First and foremost, arriving in suburban Pretoria a month ago was a jarring return to our dear industrial world where everything you could possibly want- but don’t really need – is neatly arranged on a bright, quasi-sterilized supermarket shelf. Far [...] .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
As far as I was concerned until quite recently, Pemba had only two seasons: hot and really hot. July, December, October, it really didn’t matter: the sun [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 ApeRifle - All Rights Reserved |
|||||