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This is just a short video to show some of the environmental impact of more residential units being built near to this section of the Canal. Although it is not a case of large-scale destruction of small eco-system, for the local fauna and flora involved, because the habitat is a small one, even the felling of one or two large trees can have a significant impact on them. Please take a contemplative look.

The fact is that all white South Africans were, under the old laws of the country, seen as having a higher status than other 'races', especially black South Africans.  Twenty-First Century white South Africans, therefore, either cannot or would find it very difficult to feel 'at home' within the ANC.  They are likely to feel even more uncomfortable than white South African members of the ANC during the liberation struggle. All of which are reasons why, despite its one hundred years history, the African National Congress is not the best equipped political vehicle to lead the South African Nation to 'Rainbowotopia.  It needs to make itself 'a natural home' with which all South Africans  can identify . This is the core of all successful nation-building project. Rather than continuing in its current and old form, and remaining obsessed with the past. Making itself redundant, instead of changing with the times, becoming organic, predicting the

Will be influenced, if not determined, by factors such as their ages, whether they were living in rural or urban areas in their countries of origin.  And the strength of their religious beliefs, and their cultures, customs and traditions. There is also other crucial factors which will influence, if not actually determine the level of accommodation and assimilation of the immigrant into the mainstream cultural, political and socio-economical life of the host country and society.  These are factors pertaining to the immigrants' host, whether or not their host is a reluctant or welcoming one.  Factors such as the reaction of the host to the immigrant, how tolerant or intolerant the host is.  Whether the host shuns the immigrant and endeavour to marginalise them economically, politically and socially. The paradox of the immigrant, therefore, is that he/she risk existing in what has come to be called a schizoid world.  A world in which they straddle two wor

Not when by remembering them, we induce in ourselves, a state of genuine or feigned solemnity. And, for those who were related to and or friends and close acquaintances of the dead, genuine grief.  But, we might still ask ourselves, why remember at all, if it is going to be an occasion of sadness and relived pain, another episode of experiencing our grief, annually? What is the point?  What is the point, unless the remembrance is going to be a celebration of happy times having being spent with the now departed? Not so with more joyous celebration, such as that of two people having shared their lives, for better and for wose, together, and having stuck it out in thick and in thin, as it were.  Say, for example, a man and a woman, having come together, getting married, having children and caring for them and watching them grow up into adulthood.  Think of the sacrifices, the stresses, the hardships and uncertainties such a couple, in any part of the world, will have

So, people celebrate all kinds of anniversaries, some of them happy ones and some of them sad and poignant ones. But all of them being filled with significance for the people celebrating them.  Some anniversaries are national ones, such as a nation or country celebrating and remembering 'glorious battles' which their ancestors have fought to defend their lands from invaders or occupiers.  For others, it might be a painful remembrance of a catastrophe which has befallen them or their ancestors, at a given time in the history.  Such as the dropping of the Atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, or the still recent Fukushima earthquake and Tsunami. Or, as is the case with World Wars 1 and 2, it might be the celebration and remembrance of the tragic sacrifice of tens of millions of lives.  To impose on and defend countries and peoples against the maniacal ambitions of politicians and nationalists who have resorted to trying to achieve their grand objectives through w

Yes, it really was the case that not all white South Africans benefited from the former Apartheid Regime, or benefited to the same extent.  In terms of political, economic, social and personal power. Just as how it is not all white Americans are benefiting, or benefiting the same extent from the United States' essentially racist social, economic and political power system.  Which is why you have white Americans pushing back, when black Americans articulate the main problem in America as being that of 'racist' and 'white oppression.'  Perceptions can be more important that apparently 'indisputable facts.' They can deny or blind people to the opportunities which are available to them to empower them to change adverse circumstances to desired ones.  In fact, our perceptions, because they are erroneous, can be the causes of our problems, or of their magnification. Which is why it can be prudent to tackle people's perceptions, by identifying and

And then, there is the matter of the demand for all of these new and probably specialised weapons for the 'teacher/protector.?  From whence will the money come to buy them, to insure them and keep them safe from being stolen by students and others in the school?  Is this going to lead to less money being spent on educating students, and more money being spent on defensive contingency plans, in case of an attack on the school?  Is this a situation which is going to place an unfair and very costly burden on  all schools and places of learning, just in case some of them find themselves among the unfortunate few which will be attacked? So, how ironic, paradoxical even, that President Trump's proffered solution to the gun epidemic and gun massacres in the United States of America.   Should be one which would not result in a decrease in gun ownership and usage. But in an increase in the number of guns being owned by Americans?  That it should result in the gun